Quarterly 88: Spring 2017

• Roller Skates and Mechanical Swans: Benjamin Hebbert examines the inventive genius of John Joseph Merlin and his Cremona Emulus

• New Violin in Honour of World War I Poets: Steve Burnett introduces his new violin tribute to Siegfried Sassoon marking the centenary meeting of the Craiglockhart poets

• BVMA Violin Restoration Course: Rose Handy reports on her experience of the course at

  West Dean in April

• Newark School of Violin Making: Colin Garrett and Ruth Robertson report on the threat to international students

• Obituary : Martin Bouette: John Topham pays tribute to a great maker