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Episode 01 · · 49 min

Tuning a Life

Instrument maker Jun Park leaves a little imbalance in the wood, and trusts the margin more than the sentence.

With Jun Park, Instrument makerMaking / Music

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  1. Mara Voss

    Jun Park makes instruments that are slightly unfinished on purpose. He says a perfect string is a string with nothing left to teach you.

  2. Jun Park

    I leave a little imbalance in the neck. Not a flaw a player must fight. A conversation. When you tune, you are agreeing with the wood about what today sounds like. Tomorrow the agreement changes. That is the part I refuse to sand away.

  3. Mara Voss

    And the notebook you keep.

  4. Jun Park

    Mostly margins. The sentence in the middle is usually wrong. The note in the margin is the one I still believe in the morning.

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