Keith Peck

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Keith Peck in his shop 1996

Keith M. Peck (1953 – 1998) was an American bow maker from Evanston, Illinois.

Peck began playing cello at age nine and continued to study the cello with Howard Jones at University of Idaho. It was his other cello teacher, Arthur Ross, who got him intrigued in bows by stressing their importance and eventually his focus turned to bow making. Started making bows in 1971. Moved to Seattle, Washington in 1975 and worked for David Saunders from 1975 to 1976.

Established own shop in 1976, making his own model as well as copies of Dominique Peccatte, François Tourte, and Francois Nicolas Voirin, and frog copies of François-Jude Gaulard, John Dodd, Francois Lupot, Nicolaus Kittel, Pierre Simon, Voirin and many more. Peck is widely known for being the creator of the Amber Frog Bow, a bow commissioned by Gennady Filimonov.^[1]

The Amber Frog bow by Keith Peck made in 1996/97 commissioned by Gennady Filimonov.

[edit] References

^ Jessamyn Reeves-Brown. "Mastering New Materials: Commissioning an Amber Bow, no.65", Strings magazine, Nov 1997. Retrieved on 2007-04-09.

Wenberg, Thomas James (1986). The Violin Makers of the United States. Mt Hood, OR: Mt Hood Pub. Co.. ISBN 0-938071-05-X.
STRINGS magazine 1995/96 (Dec./Jan.)
STRINGS magazine, Nov 1997
STRINGS magazine, Nov 1999 No76 (Feb/March)
Srad magazine Jan. 1999

[edit] Quotes

""..his bow was a perfect piece of work showing the right spirit of Vuillaume-Voirin..........As for the owners of his bows, they should be honored to be in possession of such bows." - Jean Francois Raffin (1998) Bow Expert/Master Maker Expert Pres La Court D'Appel de Paris^[1]

"....seeing a Peccatte copy which he made, was one of astonishment..." Elmar Oliveira Concert Soloist (1998)^[2]

"..superb copyist in the Great French Tradition.." - Bernard Millant (1998) Maitre Luthier-Archetier Entente Internationale des Maitres Luthiers et Archetiers d'Art ^[3]