Epoch players love talking about their instruments
Paul ‘Pixie’ Jenkins talks about how his five-string electric violin moves with him.
Andrew Clermont reveals how he turned his Epoch electric violin into a didgeridoo.
Paul ‘Rabbit’ Robinson tells how his five-string electric Epoch can sing into the amp, all by itself.
Professional violinist Rachel Bostock has played her Epoch electric for 20 years – it has never let her down
Australian concert and jazz violinist Ian Cooper has been playing the Queensland-made Epoch electric violins for more than 20 years.
Creative director of Angamus Music in Newcastle NSW, Chin-Hwi Ann was an early adopter of the Epoch electric violin for stage performances.
Andrew Clermont talks about the consistent sound and feel of his Epoch.
Paul ‘Pixie’ Jenkins loves the way his five-string electric Epoch ‘settles’ under him as he begins to play.
Paul ‘Rabbit’ Robinson is impressed by the way his Epoch stays in tune and is unaffected by heat and humidity.
Paul ‘Rabbit’ Robinson loves the way Epoch has mounted his shoulder rest into the instrument.
Andrew Clermont says you can trust what you feel and what you extract from the Epoch.
Paul ‘Pixie’ Jenkins reckons most electric fiddles are like boat anchors – they give nothing back. His five-string electric has the properties of an acoustic fiddle under his chin.
‘The stability of the instrument is quite extraordinary,’ says Paul ‘Pixie’ Jenkins. I throw my violin around on stage and it stays in tune remarkably well.
Andrew Clermont says anything you want to do with an Epoch happens without complications.
Paul ‘Rabbit’ Robinson describes how he plays base lines on the lower strings in a duo with a guitar player.
The Epoch electric violin has a good acoustic sound which many solid body electric violins don’t have, and there’s no feedback problem.
Rachel Bostock loves the reliability of her Epoch electric violin for her band and solo gigs around Australia.
An early review of the Epoch soon after the first models were released about 30 years ago. Irish fiddler Tim Whelan gave a glowing review.
An early review of the Epoch by music teacher David Maddick who gave an encouraging report soon after the instrument’s release
Matthews Tyson, music teacher at the St Cecilia School of Music in Tasmania was asked to review the Epoch in its early years and was impressed.