After spending extensive time as a child in his father's woodworking shop, Wood built his first electric violin at age 10.[6] In the 1970s, he gained notoriety from the stringed instrument community with his first solid body electric violin, and continued experimenting with numerous variations on this design in order to create an aesthetically appealing electric violin that would allow him to move freely while playing.[7] It has since evolved into the Viper, a fretted, six-stringed electric violin with a patented chest support system. Now dubbed, "the Les Paul of the Violin world,[8]" he owns, Wood Violins, the producer of five lines of custom-made electric violins and cellos.
Judy Kang, violinist for Lady Gaga's The Monster Ball Tour, uses one of Wood's Vipers. She can be seen performing a solo on her Viper in HBO's Lady Gaga Presents the Monster Ball Tour: At Madison Square Garden.[9] In addition to Kang, Carrie Underwood's violinist, Jimmy Herman, uses a Wood Violin. Big and Rich's violinist, Shawn Bailey, performed with a Viper at the Country Music Awards and on Good Morning America.[10]
After spending extensive time as a child in his father's woodworking shop, Wood built his first electric violin at age 10.[6] In the 1970s, he gained notoriety from the stringed instrument community with his first solid body electric violin, and continued experimenting with numerous variations on this design in order to create an aesthetically appealing electric violin that would allow him to move freely while playing.[7] It has since evolved into the Viper, a fretted, six-stringed electric violin with a patented chest support system. Now dubbed, "the Les Paul of the Violin world,[8]" he owns, Wood Violins, the producer of five lines of custom-made electric violins and cellos.Judy Kang, violinist for Lady Gaga's The Monster Ball Tour, uses one of Wood's Vipers. She can be seen performing a solo on her Viper in HBO's Lady Gaga Presents the Monster Ball Tour: At Madison Square Garden.[9] In addition to Kang, Carrie Underwood's violinist, Jimmy Herman, uses a Wood Violin. Big and Rich's violinist, Shawn Bailey, performed with a Viper at the Country Music Awards and on Good Morning America.[10]
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