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Bob Pinsker was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He studied the violin with several members of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra as a child and has been playing the violin in various orchestras for more than 30 years. He taught himself to play the piano in his early teens and soon developed a lifetime interest in the popular piano styles of the first half of the 20th century. He has studied old sheet music and piano rolls since the early 70s. In "real life", Bob is a plasma physicist working at a laboratory in San Diego, California, but whenever he can he carries out musicological research, rehearses with various orchestras, and appears as a solo pianist at such venues as Old Town Music Hall (where he appeared in two concerts in 2002 and one each in 2003-2006), El Segundo, CA, the Orange County RagFest (2001-2006), of course, and The Roseleaf Club in Pasadena. In 2003, he also appeared at both the Sutter Creek Ragtime Festival in August and the West Coast Ragtime Festival in Sacramento in November.