Peter Prier & Sons Violins

“My grandfather found a violin in the bottom of a bomb crater.” For Paul Prier, the story of Peter Prier & Sons Violins begins long before the beloved Salt Lake City shop opened its doors. It begins in Germany in 1942, when his father, Peter Paul Prier, was born into a world marked by war, hunger, loss, and uncertainty. Peter’s father was killed during World War II, and he was raised by his mother and grandfather in a family that had very little.