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Pete Martin
Pete Martin

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Pete Martin is a musician and private-lesson music teacher living in Seattle. Playing fiddle, mandolin, guitar and tenor guitar, he has performed and recorded with many northwest artists.

With the Skyline Drifters, he appeared on the Nashville Network Bluegrass show "Fire on the Mountain." He currently plays fiddle with Seattle-area bluegrass band Northern Pacific.

Pete Martin has won or placed near the top in many regional and national instrumental competitions. In 1983, he placed in the top five at the Walnut Valley Mandolin Contest in Winfield, Kansas, and, in 1994, he was Adult Division National Fiddle Champion, at Weiser, Idaho.

He has authored six books on mandolin and fiddle playing, "Old-time Tunes for Fiddle and Mandolin, Vol. 1 and 2", "Music Theory for Fiddle and Mandolin", "Texas Style Fiddle Transcriptions, Vol. 1 and 2", and "Benny Thomasson Fiddle Transcriptions".

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