For a long time, my main YW Pulsar has had to serve two purposes. It was my instrument, of course. But at times, it also became the instrument I would place in front of someone else — a client, a visitor, a curious pair of hands. Which, in many ways, is a beautiful thing. These instruments invite touch.They invite listening.They invite a person to come closer. And yet, I have also learnt, rather painfully, that my own performing instrument needs a certain boundary around it.
