In October I welcomed the first year from Newark School of Violin Making for a two-day hand’s on visit to the workshop and study at the Ashmolean Museum over the half term break. Unfortunately nobody told their teacher, the great John Wright, who was taking a quiet holiday with his partner in Oxford. Here is the moment we mobbed him outside the Ashmolean.
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
