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Honorary Fellow: Association For Scottish Literary Studies

“If we investigate only by physical and chemical means, we can only get physical and chemical answers.”

Sir Alister Hardy, FRS

The renowned French luthier, J.B. Vuillaume, was accused of forgery, dishonesty and using harmful acids on the wood. In letters written mid-19th century he refers to those who actively sought to deride his work, those who “seek to spread ignorance and ill-will .. those who can produce nothing of any worth”.

Biography - J.B. Vuillaume by Roger Millant. W.E.Hill & Sons, London. 1972.

As is well-known, J.B. Vuillaume violins now sell well into five figures at auction, and he is suspected by many to have been the real maker of the “Messiah” Stradivari violin on view at Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum.