It’s always the greatest pleasure to lecture at the Cambridge Violin Making School’s summer course, and I try to make it for at least one of the weeks each year. The course attracts the most wonderful assortment of musicians – amateur and professional alike, academics from the university, and a good sprinkling of the unexpected as well as students trying out violin making for the first time before committing to Newark, West Dean or the other international violin making schools. In 2023, I just gave up on lectures, and for three weeks we just did a Q&A event. So much fun, and amazing mind-bending to rethink things for more regular students.
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
