2017 年 8 月
我对我的小提琴感到非常满意和着迷，非常感谢马丁把我们带到一起。它的音色优美而富有个性，高音区的音符依然纯净；而且反应灵敏，演奏起来非常愉快。我简直不敢相信拥有它是多么幸运。
I had a dream to buy a fine violin for several years but, thinking that the process would be intimidating and overwhelming for a musical ingénue such as myself, kept putting it off. I was wrong. I can, in all honesty, say that it was actually enjoyable. Martin let me try out a room full of instruments over several hours, popping in from time to time to give welcome advice, but never the hard sell. Eventually I had a shortlist of 3, which I was allowed to take home on trial. I felt under no obligation to buy, but it did rapidly become apparent that there was one violin, above the others, that I kept wanting to pick up and play, so the choice was easy. I am impressed that this was the instrument that Martin had mentally marked down as “having my name on it” right from the start.
Shelagh Winship, Scotland