Alan Arthur Suits Luthier

I have been fascinated with musical instruments all my life. I studied sarod briefly with the greatest master of that instrument, Ustad Ali Akbar Khan, when I was 14 and at 18 travelled to Madras in South India where I learned the Saraswathi Veena. At age 20 I lived in Senegal and studied kora. During all these pursuits I realized I loved making the instruments themselves as much as playing them and have pursued instrument building, repair and restoration avidly for over 50 years.