2014년 10월
제 딸 이슬라에게 딱 맞는 바이올린을 구할 수 있도록 도와주셔서 감사합니다, Martin. 우선, 바이올린의 가치에 대해 이메일로 설명해 주신 덕분에 골동품으로서의 소장 가치보다는 소리 자체에 가치가 있는 바이올린을 찾고 있다는 사실을 알게 되었습니다.
Until then, I hadn’t appreciated how a violin can have a very high price with a very poor sound. Your website list of assessments of all the many violins that you’ve played also helped us to see how my daughter’s previous violin which she had borrowed from school might compare with another one that might be available for loan from her university. And your website also explained what we might look for in a violin’s sound.
You obviously put a lot of thought into the collection of 8 or so violins for Isla to try, as they were about right for someone of her level – post-diploma, starting out as a student of music at Oxford University, and interested in violin performance as part of her career. Thank you for letting us spend the whole afternoon in your workshop, trying out all these violins until we whittled the choice down to two violins which sounded beautiful. Your guidance towards the one that would be more suitable for someone whose performance would include solos was helpful for us as non-specialists in this area.
Isla has now been playing her new violin with a new teacher and in at least 6 different orchestras and ensembles and is very happy with it, so a big thank you from us for thinking of it for Isla, for having it available, and for guiding us towards it. A good job done!
Cathy R, Scotland
