Since I chaired the 2017 Messiah conference for the British Violin Making Association, I have had enormous pleasure in presenting a summary of the conference to numerous audiences including that the Ashmolean museum and annually to students at Newark School of Violin Making. In November 2023, I gave a presentation to the Michigan Violin Makers Association. There are some ferociously dedicated makers in that part of the United States, so I really had to be on top of my game. Some people think I have a Messiah complex… I suppose there’s no getting away from that joke.
Connoissership at Oxford University.
For the academic world there are deep problems that arise from historic artefacts that are untethered from a record of provenance, and the violin is
