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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

A complete work in book form, detailing the methods used in the construction and finishing of the highest quality violins and violas is planned, but will not be available for some time yet.

Meanwhile, the parameters necessary to effect a great improvement in factory-made instruments are immediately available. The improvements add little to the basic cost of manufacture, though to take full advantage of them a much better set-up than is commonly offered is