Biographical Info

Douglas Marples is a graduate of the Violin Making School of
America in Salt Lake City. His workshop is in the small midwestern
college town of Lawrence, Kansas where he makes professional
quality new instruments of the violin family.

Marples came to violin making as a second career that brought
together life-long interests in music, history and woodworking. He
graduated with honors from the University of Kansas with a degree
in History followed by a Doctor of Medicine degree and a residency
in Internal Medicine at the University of Kansas Medical Center in
Kansas City. Following postgraduate training he worked in Western
Kansas as a general internist and provided diagnostic services in the
field of cardiac diseases. During that time he developed an interest in
the violin which eventually grew to the point of inspiring the
decision to pursue violin making professionally.