“Stephen Clapp and my bow grip” from The Many Stories of Bill Fitzpatrick. (Video no.46/54)
Channel: Bill Fitzpatrick's Videos
Date: 2022-08-12

Video Transcription …
Stephen Clapp, my teacher while I was at the Blair school and his wife Linda were very important to my life’s growth. I was constantly at their place, they were my second family. Stephen would let me practice in his studio at Blair when he wasn’t teaching so one day I stopped practicing and was looking through his books and ran across the Galamian book. I started looking through it and stopped at the pages on bow grips. Stephen came in, saw what I was looking at and asked me what I thought about it? I then blurted out “I want to change my grip to this” and showed him pictures from the book and he immediately started explaining how to accomplish that. Years later when thinking about this moment, I realized that he had shown me how to change my bow grip from the one he had taught me. Stephen was truly an incredible teacher!