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"When I am carving wood, I am like a carpenter or a sculptor. When I am varnishing, I am a painter, an artist. Once it goes into the performer's hands, I become like a doctor, or sometimes a psychiatrist," he smiles and adds, "and then it becomes all about their experience with the instrument."