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94<p>I&#8217;ve been playing guitar and mandolin family instruments since the mid 1960s. I began building instruments in the early 1970s when I made an Appalachian style dulcimer for my wife Liz and a carved-top cittern for myself.</p>
95<p>Instrument building became my full time work when we moved from the city into the countryside in 1975.</p>
96<p>I added mandolins and bouzoukis soon after, these being closely based on my cittern design. In 1981 I built my first arch-top guitar, followed in 1983 by my first flat-top guitar.</p>
97<p>I cycle (in good weather), play competitive table tennis and love walking in our local countryside with dog and camera. And I love building instruments.</p>
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108<h3>David Wilson</h3>
109<p style="text-align: justify;">I shellac lacquered my early instruments, but from around 1978 they were finished in melamine lacquer by Jack Clark at Overwater Guitars.</p>
110<p style="text-align: justify;">Dave Wilson took over from Jack in 1984, setting up for himself in 1996; he has finished all my instruments ever since starting at Overwater.</p>
111<p style="text-align: justify;">Dave is a dedicated father, musician, fanatical cyclist and car nut. He is a perfectionist in everything he does.</p>
112<p style="text-align: justify;">Click<span style="color: #0000ff;"> <a style="color: #0000ff;" href="mailto:[email protected]">here</a></span> to email Dave.</p>
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126<h3>Jason Sobell</h3>
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129<p style="text-align: justify;">Though using a computer for my publicity from the mid 80s, I resisted email and the internet for several years until my son Jason persuaded me otherwise. He was right. &nbsp;For his sins he now manages my computer equipment and website.</p>
130<p style="text-align: justify;">Jason picked up computing at an early age in the early 1980s, becoming a British Telecom apprentice in 1982. Since leaving British Telecom he&#8217;s worked as a consultant and a university IT lecturer, and now runs his own software company in Melbourne Australia.</p>
131<p style="text-align: justify;">Enthusiastic and knowledgeable about everything he does, his patience with his obstinate father is admirable.</p>
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