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Whether you're a player, maker, teacher or enthusiast, you'll find ideas and inspiration from leading artists, teachers and luthiers in our archive which features every issue published since January 2010 - available exclusively to subscribers. View the archive.

Andrew Dipper

Review
Book review: Artistic Violins and Bows: The Music Region of Markneukirchen and Schönbach
14 March 2025
Andrew Dipper reviews Bruce Babbitt and Brandon Godman’s latest book on the ‘Musikwinkel’ of eastern Germany which became one of the world’s great heartlands of instrument making in the 19th century
Review
Book review: The Luthier’s Manual by J.C. Maugin
20 July 2022
Andrew Dipper delves into a new translation of the 19th-century treatise by John Saucier, W. Brad Holley and Kate Rickenbacker

Andrew Dipper

Book review: Artistic Violins and Bows: The Music Region of Markneukirchen and Schönbach

Book review: The Luthier’s Manual by J.C. Maugin