In the world of violins, expertise varies— a stellar soloist may lack in chamber music, an orchestral musician might struggle as a teacher. Similarly, in violin restoration, intense focus on repairs can overshadow the instrument’s significance. My annual identification lecture emphasizes foundational knowledge while recognizing the vastness of the field. Hence, I hope to illustrate and give some foundations, some explanation of what we can look at to determine an attribution, but to understand that it is is just another fascinating dimension of this microcosm of the universe, and to be confident enough to say “I just don’t know”.
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
