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.
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.
Australian concert and jazz violinist Ian Cooper has been playing the Queensland-made Epoch electric violins for more than 20 years.
