Keith Peck

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Keith Peck in his shop 1996

1 Biography
2 Bows
3 Quotes
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Biography

Keith Peck (1953 – 1998) was a bow maker from Evanston, Illinois, United States.

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 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 François Nicolas Voirin, and frog copies of Gaulard, Dodd, Nicolas Lupot, Kittel, Simone, Voirin and many more. He is widely known for being the creator of the Amber Frog Bow.^[1]

[edit] Bows

Pictured here is an Amber Frog bow by Keith Peck made in 1996/97 as a commission for Gennady Filimonov.

Keith Peck Amber frog bow

[edit] Quotes

"seeing a Peccatte copy which he made, was one of astonishment"-Elmar Oliveira Concert Soloist

"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 Bow Expert/Master Maker, Expert Pres La Court D'Appel de Paris

"for me he was the Stradivarius of Contemporary American Bow Makers."-Gennady Filimonov 1st violinist of odeonquartet

"superb copyist in the Great French Tradition" - Bernard Millant Maitre Luthier-Archetier Entente Internationale des Maitres Luthiers et Archetiers d'Art

"one of the best modern bowmakers I have seen."-Peter Horner of Bonhams