Bringing original instruments for students to examine is critical to their learning and beyond what colleges are able to offer from their own resources. This lecture trip to West Dean College allowed the students to get close and personal to a viol, viola and violin by Barak Norman all made between 1690 and 1710, as well as an earlier violin by Thomas Urquhart from 1662. One student later copied this Barak Norman viol, using it as a study for the original colours of the marquetry fingerboard and tailpiece.
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
