It was good to spend online time with the historically informed practice students of Jacobs School of Music to talk about the hardware of violin history, and how it relates to the bigger world of musical performance. What are the issues of the miriad of different modifications and uses of the violin, what are the practical challenges and how can we face them as modern musicians surveying the whole world of the musical past. I hope I didn’t lead them too far astray!
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
