Word: violin
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Ptashne says he began playing the violin at age 15 and has improved tremendously in the past decade. Much of the impetus for that improvement has been Ptashne's continual acquisition of better-sounding violins...
...every stage of my career, whatever money I had plus whatever I could borrow involved a violin," Ptashne says. "It's like houses, you trade up and trade...
Ptashne says that for much of his life, he has sought a violin capable of producing a peculiarly high-quality sound that has obsessed him for many years...
...always had a certain sound in mind and was haunted by that," Ptashne says. "The motivation for what I have done, particularly starting a company, was to afford a better and better violin...
Ptashne says he even tried to convince then-president Derek C. Bok to have the University loan him money to purchase an early Stradivari violin, widely regarded as the best instruments in the world...