Five-year GAL member Edmond Rampen started making instruments in the early 1970s with Foxfire 3 as a guide and the wood pile as a source. After art school he planned to be a luthier, but a wood allergy mandated a hypoallergenic alternative. He became a product designer and a professor, teaching industrial design, CAD, plastics fabrication for artists, and musical instrument design since 1985, as well as running a business focusing on medical and musical hardware. Years later he discovered that the allergy was just to pine. He resumed instrument building and is now over one hundred and counting.

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