99. Ben Heaney - a podcast by Seb Philpott and Verity Simmons
from 2023-06-17T08:00:06
In Episode 99 it's 'bring your husband to work' day as violinist, journalist and long suffering spouse of Verity, Rob Simmons guest hosts. What a perfect opportunity to thrash out any domestic issues...just kidding, it's all very amicable.
Their guest is THE go to man for all things electric violin Benedict Heaney. Ben has spent his career and studies recording, performing and researching the electric violin and has pushed the boundaries of what can be achieved with the instrument. He also runs the brilliantMusic Health Serviceworking with extremely poorly and vulnerable members of the community bringing top class music to them.
Ben shows off his pride and joy, the only originalFenderviolin of it's kind - it is a thing to behold (see a link to a picture below). They chat about the resistance he faced in attempting to further his studies of the electric violin at music college and some, ermm...memorable performances at the RNCM!
Ben describes the earliest forms of the electric instrument which leads to a possibly ill-advised/definitely harebrained scheme from Rob...watch this space.
Check out this YouTube Fender violin playlist Ben has kindly compiled which highlights it's distinct sound;
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwc-fWp8VNoZ4-T28I5oz2C21cc9GFgEM
You can learn more about Ben Heaney and the incredible work he does withMusic Health Servicefrom his website;https://deltaviolin.com/
More info about the Fender violin here;https://deltaviolin.com/leo-fenders-electric-violin-at-65/
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