'The Viol' contains general information, ad hoc articles on viol-related topics (including reviews of meetings), information about Society personnel, membership changes, Society publications, meetings, courses, viol news, instruments for hire and sale, new music publications, music & CD reviews, young players pages and correspondence.

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• VdGS Contact information
• VdGS meetings | Frances Watson
• News and announcements
• VdGS Hire Scheme
• Instruments for sale
• VdGS members welcome at Lute Society meetings
• Member changes
• Musica Britannica recording awards
• A wonderful day: VdGS viol making symposium 4 October 2024 | Paul Fremantle
• The viola da gamba and me | Klaus Miehling
• Wendland's Viol Corner: how high can you go? The treble and pardessus | Peter Wendland
• From the Archives: 'Chamber Concerts of Intimate Music' at Fenton House | Will Robley
• Evidence of pitch and temperament from extant consort organs | David Force
• 'Description of a Musick-Roome': the 'Sounding Chambers' at Cliveden | Gavin Kibble
• A brief history of early music performance spaces in the UK | Paul Heywood
• Concert review: Linarol Consort, Thorverton Parish Church, September 2024 | Marilyn Pocock
• Recording Boismortier's Opus 63 | Jacqui Robertson-Wade and Peter Wendland
• Young Players: A new viol consort in Brighton | Gavin Kibble; 'What if Christopher Simpson dropped in for the Advent Concert?' | Richard Carter; Lucy Robinson's Christmas Viol Party | Lucy Varney, Tatyana Wearen and Eleonora Savvidou
• CD review: New Vialles, Old Viols | Patrick Erickson
• New CD releases
• Book review: Verena Kronseder, Handbuch des Gambenspiels | Rhiannon Evans
• Music review: Jean-Baptiste Quentin, Seven Quartets | Jacqui Robertson-Wade
• DIAMM facsimile sale Julia Craig-McFeely
• Courses, workshops and concerts

• VdGS Contact information
• VdGS meetings | Frances Watson
• News and announcements
• VdGS Hire Scheme
• Instruments for sale
• VdGS members welcome at Lute Society meetings
• Member changes
• Musica Britannica recording awards
• VdGS meeting in Chichester 5 October 2024
• Viola da Gamba Society of Japan 50th anniversary concert
• Newe Vialles - Old Viols | Caroline Ritchie
• Brilliant and bold - the Portrait Players' Louise Labé Song Project | Miriam Nohl
• From the Archives: And, finally, The Newsletter | Will Robley
• Course Reports: Cambridge Music Renaissance Week | Chris Benson; Irish Recorder and Viol Course | Nicky Johns
• Celebrating John Wilbye's 450th birthday | John Bryan
• Maker profile: Ed Klose
• Young Players: Trying the viol in Cambridge | Emily Ashton; Voices and viols - and an Extravaganza | Lucy Robinson
• Viol Jam - how it works and how to get started | Jacqui Robertson-Wade
• New CD releases
• Music reviews | David Blazey, Philip Redfern
• Courses, workshops and concerts

• VdGS Contact information
• VdGS meetings | Frances Watson
• News and announcements
• VdGS Hire Scheme
• Instruments, bows and music for sale
• Member changes
• Only a few more days' walking | Jeanette Clayton and Christopher Webster
• Viol making symposium in West Dean, 4 October 2024 | Paul Freemantle
• A Dieterich Buxtehude transcription | Harald Vogel
• From the Archives: the News Bulletin | Will Robley
• Intesa Duo - a meeting of minds | Nathan Giorgetti
• 'Citizen science': how to discover viols around Britain - Part 2 | Michael Fleming
• Wendland's Viol Corner: frets make the tone | Peter Wendland
• Young players: Listening to a Painting | Richard Carter and Exploring music old and new | Susanna Pell, Daniel Saleeb
• New CD releases
• Music reviews | David Blazey, Richard Boothby
• Courses, workshops and concerts

• VdGS Contact information
• VdGS meetings | Frances Watson
• News and announcements
• VdGS Hire Scheme
• Instruments, bows and music for sale
• Member changes
• More about Summer Schools: Early Music Course in Brittany
• Cheltenham VdGS Summer School 1985 - Can you identify the cartoon characters?
• 75th anniversary photo competition: the other entries
• More on Abel | Thomas Fritzsch
• Music for the Richest Man in the World | David Hatcher
• The Soundscape of Late Medieval German Courtly Song | Professor Henrike Lähnemann
• The Consort Cafe is open! | Philip Redfern
• Obituary - Sally Morris | Janet Reeves
• Wendland's Viol Corner - playing different parts | Peter Wendland
• From the Archives: the VdGS Bulletin 1950-1968 | Will Robley
• Young players: Reports from Cambridge University and Winchester College | Emily Ashton and Jo Levine
• CD reviews | Patrick Erickson and Philip Redfern
• New CD releases
• The Joy Dodson Music Fund: Guidelines
• Music reviews | Helen Cais, Philip Redfern, Trudie Jordan
• Courses and concerts

• VdGS Contact information
• VdGS meetings | Frances Watson
• News and announcements
• VdGS Hire Scheme
• Instruments, bows and music for sale
• Member changes
• 'Citizen Science': how to discover viols around Britain | Michael Fleming
• Exquisite Delight: Abel's 300th anniversary | Viktor Töpelmann
• Summer Schools - course information
• In praise of the In Nomine | Jaap Noorman
• Spirit of Gambo Irish tour | Patricia Quinn
• Wendland's Viol Corner: left arm, hand and fingers | Peter Wendland
• From the Archives: The 'Viola da Gamba Summer Schools' - Part 3 | Will Robley
• Young players: Viol Jam meet up in London, December 2023 | Jacqui Robertson-Wade; A splendid celebration: Johanna Carter's Viol class in Döbling, Vienna | Richard Carter; Reports from Cambridge University and Aberdeen University | Emily Ashton, Claire Horacek; Report from Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama | Hannah Bourn, Aden Yip, Katia Rumen; A fantastic opportunity: evensong in Brecon Cathedral | Sam Hills-Field
• CD review: The Honour of William Byrd | Catherine Clark
• Music reviews: Bach Suites | Camilla Morse-Glover
• Courses and concerts

• VdGS Contact information
• VdGS meetings | Ibrahim Aziz
• The VdGS Journal | Andrew Ashbee
• News and announcements
• VdGS Hire Scheme
• Instruments and bows for sale
• Member changes
• The VdGS at LIFEM 2023 | Sue Challinor
• From the Chair | John Bryan
• A viol dream come true | Polly Sussex
• Remembering Weelkes in Chichester | John Bryan
• The German Viola da Gamba Society after a renewal | Heidi Groeger
• From the Archives: The 'Viola da Gamba Summer Schools'- Part 2 | Will Robley
• Margaret, the dog with a taste for gut strings | Mimmo Peruffo
• ViolJam meet up in London | Jacqui Robertson-Wade
• Young players | Rob Cavaye, Aden Yip
• CD reviews | Patrick Erickson
• New CD releases
• Music reviews | Michael Mullen
• Courses and concerts

• VdGS Contact information
• VdGS meetings | Ibrahim Aziz
• Celebrating the 75th anniversary of the VdGS
• News and announcements
• VdGS Hire Scheme
• Instruments and bows for sale
• Member changes
• PRB Productions: the end of a beloved resource | Nick and Sue Jones
• Rudbeckianska Gambadagar – Rudbeckian Gamba Days | Jeanette Clayton
• Wendland’s viol corner – Ending a note | Peter Wendland
• VdGS 75th anniversary meeting | Frances Watson
• From the Archives – The 'Viola da Gamba Summer Schools' | Will Robley
• From tenor viol to kamānche | Jenny Tribe
• 'Fiala, the Best Viola da Gamba Player Still Alive' | Thomas Fritzsch
• VdGS 75th anniversary photographic competition
• Young players | Sam Stadlen, Emily Ashton, John Bryan, Sue Perutz, Maya Kitay
• ViolJam continues! | Jacqui Robertson-Wade
• CD reviews | Richard Rastall, Patrick Erickson
• Book review: William Byrd, Consort Music | Richard Rastall
• New CD releases
• Music reviews | Philip Redfern, Jacqui Robertson-Wade
• Courses and concerts

• VdGS Contact information
• VdGS meetings | Ibrahim Aziz
• Celebrating the 75th anniversary of the VdGS
• News and announcements
• VdGS Hire Scheme
• Instruments and bows for sale
• Member changes
• Blessed to have grown up with music | Sarah Cunningham
• In Chains of Gold: brief history of a passion | William Hunt
• My first viol | Richard Carter
• Concert reviews | Helen Williams, Kit Denny
• Concert and film series: Festival of the Sun King
• Guenter von Zadow's catalogue of Abel's works
• 'We gave them the heart' - Buxtehude's Membra Jesu Nostri in Epsom | Helen Williams
• William Byrd at Ingatestone Hall: a portrait | Annabel Malton
• VdGS 75th anniversary recipe: edible scrolls | Helen Williams
• From the archive: a handful of autograph letters | William Robley
• Travelling with viols | Roy Marks, Hannah Wapenaar
• VdGS 75th Anniversary Photographic Competition
• Young Players | Safira Nielsen, Heidi Needham, Emily Ashton, Susanna Pell
• CD review: Mr de Machy - Pieces de Violle | Allison Balberg
• New CD releases
• Music reviews | Charles Medlam, John Steedman, Elizabeth Dodd
• Courses and concerts

• VdGS Contact information
• Meetings update | Ibrahim Aziz
• News and announcements
• VdGS Hire Scheme
• Instruments and bows for sale
• Member changes
• VdGS Journal Volume 16 - Margaret Crum commemorative volume
• Saraband Music Patrice Connelly
• Leonora Duarte's Sinfonie in the light of a new discovery Thomas Baete
• The resurrection of the Englische Violett Sam Laming
• Wendland's Viol Corner: how to adjust bow weight Peter Wendland
• Calm in a historic setting: viols at Acton Scott Hall Helen Williams
• Rudbeckianska viol-playing days in Sweden, May 2023
• Try a viol, Epsom style Nigel Williams
• Maker profile Tim Soar
• Joy Dodson Music Fund: updated guidelines
• VdGS stall at the London International Festival of Early Music Exhibition 2022
• Young players Lucy Robinson
• ViolJam: viol consort playing from your front room! Jacqui Robertson-Wade
• Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust Craft&Making Clubs
• Copy for The Viol - from a robot! Nic Hyde
• VdGS 75th Anniversary Photographic Competition
• Music reviews for The Viol: a new coordinator needed
• Music reviews Philip Redfern, Patxi del Amo, Polly Sussex
• New CD releases
• CD review Philip Redfern
• Courses and concerts

• VdGS Contact information
• Meetings update | Ibrahim Aziz
• Celebrating the 75th anniversary of the VdGS | John Bryan
• News and announcements
• VdGS Hire Scheme
• Instruments and bows for sale
• Member changes
• Royal College of Music Festival of Viols 2023
• A family feeling - NOTVIS 2022 | William H G Hunt and Rachel Williams
• From Sweden to Benslow for two summer schools | Jeanette and Christopher Clayton
• Non-stop activity and communcal spirit - the VdGSA 2022 Conclave | Mary Cunningham
• The silver lining of lockdown: A Dialogue of Viols | Jacqui Robertson-Wade
• A tale of two continents | Jonathan Dunford
• Finding my own path | Anna Tam
• Hans Khoegl's viols for Kremsmuenster Abbey | Viktor Toepelmann
• My first viol | Roy Marks
• The VdGS Instrument Advisor is here for you! | Tim Soar
• Obituaries: Michael Sharman (John Sharman) & Jane Ward (Lesley and Henry Woledge
• Young players | Emily Ashton, Sam Stadlen, Jacqui Robertson-Wade
• Tuning Apps - words of caution | Stephen Pegler
• CD review | Catherine Clark
• CDs for sale
• Music Review | Philip Redfern
• New CD releases
• Courses and concerts

• VdGS Contact information
• Meetings update | Ibrahim Aziz
• News and announcements
• Instruments and bows for sale
• Music insert: folk on the viol | Maurice Rogers
• Member changes
• Breaking the mould: should moulds be used to build viols? | Jacob Stirrat
• Player Proile | Myrna Herzog
• My first viol | John Bryan
• Viol playing in Scotland: Edinburgh University viols and the EMF Scotland hire scheme
• VdGS Hire Scheme
• Wendland's Viol Corner: bow control in a repeated pattern | Peter Wendland
• Young players | Maya Kitay, Susanna Pell, Richard Carter
• CDs for sale
• Music Reviews | Philip Redfern, Richard Boothby, Chris Benson
• New CD releases
• Courses and concerts

• VdGS Contact information
• Meetings update | Ibrahim Aziz
• News and announcements
• VdGS hire scheme
• Instruments and bows for sale
• Member changes
• Secret weapon? How Alexander Technique can benefit musicians | Tim Soar
• John Jenkins and the Octagon | Alison Crum and Roy Marks
• The Royall Consort: where to begin dating works by William Lawes | David Pinto
• Wendland's Viol Corner: changing position on the same and adjacent strings | Peter Wendland
• Course review: English consort music in Germany | John Steedman
• Concert review: Jordi Savall at Wigmore Hall | Chris Benson
• Young players | Lucy Robinson, Robert Cavaye, Cai Waverley-Hudson, Katie Ross
• CDs for sale
• Music Reviews | Elizabeth Dodd, Stewart McCoy
• New CD releases
• Courses and concerts

• VdGS Contact information
• Meetings update | Ibrahim Aziz
• 2022 AGM
• News and announcements
• VdGS hire scheme
• Instruments and bows for sale
• Member changes
• Viol as viola: an unusual role for the viol | Susanna Pell
• Wendland’s Viol Corner: changing position on the same string | Peter Wendland
• Student viol maker Sam Laming awarded a QEST scholarship
• The VdGS at LIFEM | Sue Challinor
• Obituary: Judith Davidoff | Myrna Herzog and David Loeb
• Who made the Plan de Paris viol? | Mary Iden
• Did Josquin write any music 'for viols'? | John Bryan
• 2021 VdGS Journal | Andrew Ashbee
• Young players | Susanna Pell, Emily Ashton, Sam Stadlen
• CD Reviews | Catherine Clark, Patrick Erickson
• New CD releases
• Courses and concerts

• VdGS Contact information
• Meetings update | Ibrahim Aziz
• News and announcements
• VdGS hire scheme
• Instruments and bows for sale
• Member changes
• The French style bowing and the enflé in the works of Marin Marais | Polly Sussex
• Wendland’s Viol Corner: fingering choices | Peter Wendland
• Funding opportunity: The Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust
• New music: The Language of Bells by Jill Jarman | Alison Kinder
• Health and safety – the dangers of viol playing | Philip Wilkinson
• Recovering lost techniques: historic methods of string-making – Part 2 | Mimmo Peruffo
• Young players | Lucy Robinson, Richard Carter, Matt Farrell
• Music review: Thomas Baete - The Natural Violist | Alison Crum
• New CD releases
• Online teaching avalilable
• Courses and concerts

• VdGS Contact information
• Meetings update | Ibrahim Aziz
• News and announcements
• VdGS hire scheme
• Instruments and bows for sale
• Member changes
• Letters to the Editor | David Pinto and Anne Martin
• Celebrating greatness: the Linarol Consort's Josquin500 Festival | David Hatcher
• A Yorkshire Oddity | CJ Coggill
• My crazy lockdown, part 2 | Jacqui Robertson-Wade
• Wendland's Viol Corner | Peter Wendland
• Obituaries: Annette Otterstedt and Jose Vazquez
• Recovering lost techniques: researches into historic methods of string-making | Mimmo Peruffo
• NRI past and present | Sue Challinor
• Music review: William Byrd, Eight Fragmentary Songs | Stewart McCoy
• New CD releases
• CD Reviews | Philip Redfern, Richard Rastell, John Bryan
• Courses and concerts

• VdGS Contact information
• 2021 AGM and Meeting update | Ibrahim Aziz
• News and announcements
• VdGS hire scheme
• Instruments and bows for sale
• Member changes
• The Bowed Strings Iconography Project | Barry Pearce
• My crazy lockdown | Jacqui Robertson-Wade
• Francis Baines - a centeneray tribute
• Wendland's Viol Corner | Peter Wendland
• 'My selfe I like to an vntun's Viall' | Michael Fleming
• Online Teaching
• La La Hö Hö - the Linarol Consort's debut recording | David Hatcher
• Undemanding bit fascinating - a new look at Byrd's Fantasia 6/F | Anne Martin
• Young Players | Roxy Tabin, Joshua Clarke
• New Music Editions: Hilton, Jeffreys and Hudson | Maurice Rogers
• Music reviews | Timothy (En-Ming) Lin, Ibrahim Aziz
• CD reviews | Philip Redfern, Richard Rastell
• Wanted! CD review coordinator and VdGS discopgrapher
• New CD releases
• CD Review: La La Hö Hö | Richard Rastell
• Courses and online events

• VdGS Contact information
• 2021 AGM and Meeting update | Ibrahim Aziz
• News and announcements
• VdGS hire scheme
• Instruments and bows for sale
• Member changes
• Positive Feedback - VdGS member survey | John Bryan
• Cocktail concerts - King's Lynn Festival online | Alison Crum
• The Continuo Foundation
• The Language of Bells
• Better late than never | James Brookmyre
• Viols in Visual Art - the Bowes Strings Iconography Project | Thomas Munck
• Keeping on course - a student member perseveres | Agnieszka Nalazek
• Drenched deep in gore - music of the English Civil War | Matthew Farrell
• From Despair to Love - Michael East | Alison Kinder
• What happened to Michael East during the English Civil War? | William HG Hunt
• Young Players | Rachael Kennedy, David Hatcher , Lucy Robinson, Suzanna Pell, Emily Ashton
• Music reviews | Stewart McCoy, Thomas Munck, Richard Boothby, Elizabeth Dodd
• CD reviews | Philip Redfern, Richard Rastell
• Wanted! CD review coordinator and VdGS discopgrapher
• New CD releases
• Online teaching
• Course, concerts and festivals

• VdGS Contact information
• Meeting update | Ibrahim Aziz
• News and announcements
• VdGS hire scheme
• Instruments and bows for sale
• Member changes
• The Joy Dodson Music Fund
• Ailsa Dixon: 20th century polyphony brought to life | Josie Dixon
• Coronavirus: making music while the sun shines | Frances Watson
• Coronavirus: early music retreat day | Elizabeth Dodd
• Thematic Index: closer to perfection | Andrew Ashbee
• Alfonso Ferrabosco II: Lessons and Sonnets | Richard Boothby
• Mabel Dolmetsch: 'Touched with some romance' | Dr Brian Blood
• Young Players: Leeni Marschall-de Mendelssohn, Richard Carter and Johanna Valencia
• Music reviews | Stewart McCoy, Thomas Munck
• CD reviews | Philip Redfern, Michael Oppenheimer, John Bryan
• New CD releases
• Course, concerts and festivals

• VdGS Contact information
• Autumn 2020 meeting
• News and announcements
• VdGS hire scheme
• Instruments and bows for sale
• Member changes
• On the Coronavirus frontline | Philip Wilkinson
• Improvise and adapt - student viol makers | George Parfitt and Agnieszka Nalazek
• Uncertain and out of pocket | Matthew Farrell
• Making the most of it: teaching and playing online | Alison Kinder, Michael Bruessing, Jacqui Robertson-Wade, Susanna Pell, David Hatcher, Sam Stadlen, Alison Crum, Gail Ann Schroeder, Julia Vetoe and Giso Grimm, Tom Gettys, Joanna Levine, Chris Benson
• A newly-discovered Marais manuscript | Andrew Ashbee
• Andrew Ashbee in conversation | Ibrahim Aziz
• From the Archives | Chris Benson
• Mabel Dolmetsch: 'Touched with some romance' | Dr Brian Blood
• Young Players: Cockermouth viols | Elizabeth Dodd
• A present for the wife! | William HG Hunt
• Nicholas Baldock and the story of Antiquus strings | Frank Smith
• Music reviews | Charles Medlam, John Bryan, Elizabeth Dodd, Paxti del Amo
• Book review: Bettina Hoffmann, The Viola da Gamba | Thomas Munck
• CD reviews | Richard Rastall, Thomas Munck
• New CD releases
• Course and concerts

• VdGS Contact information
• Summer 2020 meeting
• News and announcements
• VdGS hire scheme
• Instruments and bows for sale
• Member changes
• The VdGS and Covid-19 | Johna Bryan and Sue Challinor
• In the time of Covid-19: viols under lockdown - players' reflections
• Easing the pain: Angel Early Music | Annabel Malton
• A lockdown puzzle
• The 19th century viol | Ian Gammie
• Sometimes less, sometimes more: intabulating Italian madrigals | Harry Buckoke
• Filling a gap: consort anthems in Friesland | Jaap Norman
• Obituaries: Ingo Muthesius | Annette Otterstedt; Nicholas Baldock | Susanne Heinrich
• Rousseau's horse: observations on the stringing of French viols | Thomas Munck
• Young players | Alison Crum, Susanne Pell, Richard Boothby, Alison Kinder, Richard Carter
• New music publications
• Music reviews | Jenny Tribe, Alison Kinder, Charles Medlam, Richard Boothby
• CD reviews | Julie Anne Sadie Goode, Philip Redfern
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• Course and concert listings

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• Spring meeting and AGM and future meetings
• News and announcements
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• Member changes
• Clear but kindly advice - RCM 2019 International Festival of Viols | Mary Iden
• Education and participation - 2020 Brisbane Early Music Festival | Patrice Connelly
• Recruits and funds - 2019 London Early Music Festival, Blackheath | Sue Challinor
• Joy Dodson Music Fund - reports | Matthew Farrell, Rachel Williams, Alice Trocellier
• The Viola da Gamba, 'this Romantic Instrument' | Thomas Fritzsch
• Much more than shaping sticks - reflections on bowmaking | Michel Proulx
• A Jenkins Miscellany | Andrew Ashbee
• Young Players Platform | Jacob Garside talks to Ibi Aziz
• Makers play: West Dean College Viol Consort | Alison Crum
• Young players | Sam Stadlen and John Bryan
• New CD Releases
• Music Reviews
• Concert and course listings

• VdGS Contact information
• Winter and future meetings
• Safeguarding in the Viola da Gamba Society
• News and announcements
• VdGS hire scheme
• Instruments and bows for sale
• Member changes
• Layton Ring - a reminiscence | Julie Stobbs
• Evensong and entertainments - combining voices and viols | Edward Seymour
• Total immersion - NORVIS 49 | Emma Ponten
• Garda Lake Music Academy | Luke Challinor
• East down south - viols in Cape Town | Helen Cais
• Much more than shaping sticks - reflections on bowmaking | Michel Proulx
• Arched backs and parquetry - Renaissance viols | Tim Soar
• The French viol: a question of strings | Luke Challinor
• Young Players: Extravaganza at RWCMD | Rowan Bidmead and Tim Edwards
• CD Review: Abendmusiken - Ensemble Stravaganza | Philip Redfern
• New CD Releases
• New Music Publications
• Music Reviews | David Hatcher, Piers Snell, Richard Boothby and David King
• Concert and course listings

• VdGS Contact information
• Autumn Meeting
• How YOU can help the Viola da Gamba Society
• Safeguarding in the Viola da Gamba Society
• News and announcements
• VdGS hire scheme
• Instruments and bows for sale
• Member changes
• Extending a welcome | Linda Hill
• Having a go - the London Try a Viol day | Lorna Simpson and Alison Kinder
• Maddalena and the Prince | recording the baryton
• From the Archives
• Obituraies: Ephraim Segerman | David Fallows; Audrey Turner | Kate Jackson and Jackie Huntingford
• Young Players | Stephen Jones, Alison Crum, Rebecca Lee and Susanna Pell
• Young Players' Platform | Ibrahim Aziz
• Starting young in Vienna | Richard Carter
• CD Reviews | John Bryan, Patxi del Amo, Thomas Munck and Julie Ann Sadie
• New CD Releases
• Music Reviews | Patxi del Amo, Philip Redfern, Stewart McCoy and Charles Medlam
• Concert and course listings

• VdGS Contact information
• Summer Meeting
• What can you do for the Society? | John Bryan
• News and announcements
• VdGS hire scheme
• Instruments and bows for sale
• Member changes
• Stolen instruments | Louise Harper
• Italian Renaissance viols: A question of status | Philip Thorby
• John Rose, 'fameux auteur' | Michael Fleming
• The highs and lows of English consort music | John Bryan
• 'Sup. Pubs.': ammonia and shirt bags | Michael Hobbs
• English Music across the North Sea | Anna Carlsen Waldingbrett and Oliver Hirsch
• Obituaries: Layton and Christine Ring | Julie Srobbs, David Pinto and Elizabeth Dodd; Jeanne Dolmetsch | Dr Brian Blood
• Young Players | Tim Edwards, Emily Ashton, John Bryan, Rebecca Lee, Alison Kinder, Alison Crum
• West Dean Viols | Alison Crum
• CD Reviews | Philip Redfern, Les Stobbs
• New CD Releases
• Music Reviews | Patxi del Amo, Clare Griffel, Piers Snell, Jeny Tribe
• Concert and course listings

• VdGS Contact information
• Spring meeting
• News and announcements
• VdGS hire scheme
• Viols and bows for sale
• Member changes
• Blackheath Early Music Festival | Sue Challinor
• The Joy Dodson Music Fund | John Bryan, David King
• Italian Renaissance Viols: a question of status | Thomas Munck
• The RCM International Festival of Viols 2018 | Richard Boothby, Naomi Meredith
• Considerations amongst the hedgerows: on multiplicity | Derek Porter
• Obituary: Jane Ryan | Ian Gammie, Scott Clark
• From the Archive: Sheila Marshall
• Young Players: Cai Waverley-Hudson, Emily Ashton, Rebecca Lee
• New CD releases, reviews
• Music reviews
• Concert and course listings

• VdGS Contact information
• Winter meeting
• News and announcements
• VdGS hire scheme
• Viols and bows for sale
• Member changes
• Course reports: Viols in the Midi-Pyrénées | Rachel Kennedy and Matthew Farrell
• VdGS/SWEMF Joint Meeting - Summer 2018 | Clare Griffel
• Correspondence: Alto viols | Chris Coggill and Richard Carter; Richard Mico | Richard Turbet and Claire Horacek
• The Michael East Project | Ibrahim Aziz
• Lute and Viols in 18th century Bath and Wells | Matthew Spring
• From the Archive: Percy Grainger
• Young Players | Martin Barnett, Elizabeth Dodd, Esha Neogy
• New Member Profile: Helen Williams
• New CD releases
• Concert and course listings

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• Autumn meeting
• News and announcements
• VdGS hire scheme
• Viols for sale
• Member changes
• Is the Quinton a Viol? | Jacqui Robertson-Wade
• In the footsteps of Anthony Poole | Thomas Baeté and Jaap Noorman
• The Renaissance viol SAM66 | Francesco Linarol Richard Jones and Philip Thorby
• The Michael East Project | Ibrahim Aziz
• Why are we still using a double bass in Monteverdi’s Vespers? | Peter McCarthy
• Young players | John Bryan, Rowan Bidmead, Matthew Spring, Richard Carter, Susanna Pell
• Music reviews | Lucy Robinson, Stewart McCoy, Jacqui Robertson-Wade, Richard Boothby, Janet Reeves, Piers Snell
• CD reviews | Stewart McCoy, Philip Redfern, John Bryan
• New CD releases
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• VdGS Contact information
• Summer meeting
• Changes to data legislation | Ursula Fuller
• News and announcements
• Gibbons, Orlando and Grinling | John Bryan
• Gambists before and around Buxtehude's time | Simone Eckert
• Riches and rarities | Amanda Stuecklin
• The viols in 'Hearing' | Thomas Munck
• New Member profile: Clare Galton
• Lost in translation? | Charles Medlam
• Young Players | Martin Barnett, Emily Ashton, Alison Kinder, Matthew Farrell, Susanna Pell, Rebecca Lee
• Music Reviews & CD Reviews | Janet Reeves, Stewart McCoy, Clare Griffel, Piers Snell, Jenny Tribe, Charles Medlam, Elizabeth Dodd, Richard Rastall
• CD Releases

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• Study Day | Restoration or reconstruction? Report on a day spent investigating problematic Tudor partbooks (Magnus Williamson)
• VdGS Autumn meeting | A melodious noiz. Discussion of the role of viols in Elizabethan and Jacobean broken consort music repertory(John Bryan)
• Course reports: Tea, cake and consorts old and new. Japan VdGS Summer Course 2017 (Asako Morikawa); Norvis XLVII (Lindsey Adams)
• Young Players. Report: Huddersfield, RCM, RWCMD. (Thomas Green, Alison Crum)
• Music Reviews & CD Reviews
• CD Releases

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• Was John a Foreigner? The shadowy career of Coprario (Edward Seymour)
• From the Archive: Rosemary Fleet, bringing viols to schools in the 1980s (Jenny Tribe)
• Blue Plaque for Tomkins
• Course report: Venice comes to Cambridge (Annabel Malton)
• New member profile: Roger Buckton
• Young Players (Hetti Price, Martin Barnett, Lucy Robinson)
• Music reviews & CD reviews
• New CD releases

• VdGS contact information
• Autumn meeting
• Minutes of EGM 18 June 2017
• Accidents of language use? The Alto viol and the Tenor-Bass Gambe (Richard Carter)
• VdGS Summer Meeting: Simone Eckert's masterclass and recital (Rhiannon Evans)
• And outstanding stand: creating a unique stand for a bass viol (Christ Hackshall)
• From the Archives: The VdGS Composers' Competition (Marilyn Pocock)
• Obituary: Virginia Brookes (Grace Rowley, Rhiannon Evans)
• Obituary: Fred Lindeman (Myrna Herzog)
• A short flowering - the mysteriously short career of Tobias Hume, part 2 (Susanne Heinrich)
• Musica Britannica: 100 not out (Peter Holman, Andrew Ashbee)
• 'Why teach children the viol?' (Jacqui Robertson-Wade)
• Young Players (Sam Stadlen, Chris Hodkinson, Susanna Pell, Richard Carter, Emily Ashton)
• Music reviews & CD reviews
• New CD releases

• VdGS contact information
• Summer meeting and AGM in Oxford
• 2016 VdGS on-line journal
• News and announcements
• Proposing a motion at the VdGS AGM
• VdGS hire scheme
• Viols and bows for sale
• Member changes
• A short flowering - the mysteriously brief career of Tobias Hume Susanne Heinrich
• Invisible Fiddlers - music in Shakespeare's plays Gerald Place
• Obituary: Wendy Hancock Ian Gammie
• How is your viol? Getting the best from your bridge Michael Goater
• Young Players Lucy Robinson, Chris Hodkinson, Johanna Finnemann, Henry Drummond
• More knitting! Clare Griffel
• Young Players Jacqui Robertson-Wade, John Bryan
• Music reviews - a feast of Abel: Jenny Tribe , Lucy Robinson, Richard Boothby, Sarah Groser, Frances Zagni, Alison Crum, Heather Gibbard, Alison Kinder, Susanne Heinrich, Janet Reeves/Emma Tristram
• New CD releases
• CD review: Lisa Colton

• Spring meeting and AGM in Oxford
• Proposing a motion at the VdGS AGM
• Studen discount offer on Gamut strings
• Shakespeare and Dance | Elizabeth Dodd
• RCM International Festival of Viols | Luke Challinor
• Family Consorts | Elizabeth and Caroline Dodd
• Early Music Festival, Blackheath Halls | Sue Challinor
• Obituary: Wendy Hancock | Stewart Mc Coy
• A Requiem for Mr William Lawes | Judith Bingham
• Acacia wood, frogs and horses | Coen Engelhard
• Young players | Lucy Robinson, Emilia Benjamin, Victoria Hobson, Henry Drummond, Alison Crum
• West Dean College | Alison Crum
• Get knitting! | Susanne Heinrich
• Joy Dodson Music Fund
• Music Reviews: Rhiannon Evans, Elizabeth Dodd, Stewart McCoy, Piers Snell, Jenny Tribe
• CD Reviews | John Bryan, Philip Redfern

• VdGS Music Editions - print your own!
• Student discount offer on Gamut Strings
• Journey to Genoa - copying a 16th century Great Bass Viol | Tim Soar
• Obituary: Els Hermanides Nijhof
• From the Archive: the American Tour of 1953 | Marilyn Pocock
• Old Music for Young Ears | Julie Stobbs
• Viols in Scotland | Vickie Hobson
• RCM International Festival of Viols 14-15 November
• Course Report: Jenkins in Germany | Heidi Groeger
• 'Praise him upon the Viol!' Viols at Evensong | Louise Stewart

• Chichester meeting June 2016:
  Friendly emulation, connections between two pairs of In Nomines | John Bryan
• 'In chains of gold': issues in the performance of verse anthems | Bill Hunt
• RCM International Festival of Viols, 14-15 Nov 2016
• The music room of Thomas Mace | Thomas Gibbard
• From the Archive: Natalie Dolmetsch on 'dangers to the viol' | Marilyn Pocock
• Viol humour: Involuntary tacet | Jan Kamphuis
• Young players | Susanna Pell, Henry Drummond, Lucy Robinson, Dian Underwood, Jacqui Robertson Wade, Richard Carter
• Taking the plunge: a try-a-viol session in Gloucester | Marilyn Pocock

• Oxford meeting March 2016:
  Pearls before the Swine? Pleasing the audience then and now | Judy Tarling
• Notes of Dule: Byrd and Guichardo | Richard Turbet
• Young Players | John Bryan, Beth Edwards
• Richard Jones, viol maker | Richard Jones
• The Joy Dodson Music Fund, guidelines: proposing a motion at a VdGS AGM

• London meeting Oct 2015:
  The Division Viol, an Overview | Myrna Herzog
• Performing Simpson's Aires | Ibrahim Aziz
• Christopher Simpson, composer of consort music | Ali Kinder
• Young Players | Mary Pells, Elizabeth Dodd
• Course reports: Irish Viol and Recorder Course | Janes Reeves, Jill Davies
• Bass fretted instruments at Schloss Seehaus | Heidi Groeger
• Higham Hall Early Music Summer School
• Eyland Fest: renaissance viols at Charney Manor | Catherine Lorigan
• Dr Bernd Becker, making facsimiles available | Mary Iden
• Royal College of Music IXth Festival of Viols | Nic Hyde
• The Peerson Project | Richard Rastall
• Reviewing contemporary music | Jenny Tribe

• Obituaries | Trevor Jones, Gill Humphreys
• Birmingham meeting 21 June 2015:
  Introduction | Wendy Hancock;
  Traces of Elizabethan musical communities: the 'Hamond' partbooks | Katherine Butler;
  Viol-playing in choristers' musical education in sixteenth-century England | Jane Flynn
• Young players | Claire Bracher, Henry Drummond
• Dartington International Summer School | Richard Boothby
• Never too late - taking up the viol at 70 | Lindsay Stemp
• Travelling wit viols | Richard Carter, Susanne Heinrich
• The Joy Dodson Music Fund, guidelines: proposing a motion at a VdGS AGM

• Viols on the road: more travel stories
• Rehearsing for the Tempest | Ibi Aziz
• Sticks and frogs at West Dean | Craig Ryder and Kjaer Brady
• The Glasgow Viol Consort | Martin Barnett
• Showcasing viols in York | Susanna Pell
• Viol extravaganza: a day of masterclasses | Berri Munn
• Concert at Chilwell | Wendy Hancock
• Verse anthems and consort songs in Cambridge | Joanna Finnemann
• Award for Gutted! | Jaqcui Robertson-Wade
• Starting young in Vienna | Richard Carter

• The late virtuosi of the Viola da Gamba | Pia Pircher, Charles Medlam
• Makers ad players (at West Dean College) | Alison Crum
• Young Players take the stage: Reports on thriving student viol consorts | Alison Crum, Dian Underwood, Ibi Aziz, Mary Pells, John Bryan
• First steps towards a searchable Thematic Index | Andrew Ashbee
• Making headlines | Polly Sussex interviews Francisco Pecchia

• AGM Agenda
• Dartington International Summer School | Mary Iden, Richard Boothby, Emily Hoare
• Higham Early Music Summer School | Helen McCann
• A choice of delights | Norvis XLIV 2014 | Sam Grainger
• A bridge too far? | Thomas Munck
• The bas viol after the death of Marin Marais | Pia Pircher
• The night before a viol lesson | Allison Balberg
• The Cambridge University Viol Consort | Emily Ashton
• Young Players
• Have viol, will travel | Susanne Heinrich
• Is your bow bugged? | Mary Iden
• Recent researches | Ian Woodfield
• A big thank you

• Hille Perl Masterclass at the Vielklang Festival
• Advanced Viol Consorts course at Dartington
• Early viol stringing and its relevance for players today | Alison Crum
• The revival of French Baroque playing in our time | Julie Anne Sadie Goode

• From the Archive: Richard Nicholson | A personal reflection | Liz Page
• Report on VDGS Summer meeting, Bristol Music Club | Marilyn Pocock
• The Solo Bass Suite (Summary of talk given at Bristol VDGS meeting)| Charles Medlam
• It Takes Guts: Report of a talk given at the Bristol VDGS meeting by Jane Julier
• Letter from Mexico | Gabriela Villa Walls
• Tying Frets: A simple and effective method | Joe Lotito
• Book review, Martin Erhardt 'upon a ground' | Thomas Munck
• Carving Viola Heads | John Pringle
• A Word of Caution on Tuning Meter Apps | Stephen Pegler
• New Music for Historical Instruments: Why Viol Players should take interest | Leslie Gold

• The three Fantasias by John Okeover. A Composition Competition
• 'Their Last Foile and Polishment' | aspects of compositional refinement in the consort dance of Dowland and Holborne: report of a talk by John Bryan
• Rita Morey: 18 November 1935-29 January 2014 | Lorna Watson
• The Creative Viol: Teleman and the Modern World | Dr Lucy Robinson
• 'No Limitations': A Workshop in Composition | Dr Andrew Wilson-Dickson
• Charlie Barber's 'Michelangelo Drawing Blood' | Ibi Aziz
• From the Archive: John Wellingham | Marilyn Pocock
• Viols in Scotland: A National Crisis | Martin Barnett

• The Viola da Gamba Society at Greenwich Early Music Exhibition 2013 | Marilyn Pocock
• Variant Tunings in the Lute and Viol Repertory: report of a talk by Lynda Sayce
• John Dowland: An Englishman Abroad; report of a talk by Peter Holman
• Playing the Viol without Sight | Ducan Bell
• Letter to the Editor: the treatment of accidentals in modern editions | Richard Carter
• Young Players' News
• Tone Quality, as seen by a bow maker (Konstantin Krutzsch)

• Electronic Membership Survey Evaluation | Susanne Heinrich
• More about the Quintfiedel | Titia Tebben
• The Future of VdGS Editions | your comments please!
• The VdGS Hire Scheme | Mary Iden
• Making the Tudor Viol | Oxford Jul 2013 | Catherine Lorigan
• Orlando Gibbons, 1583-1625 | Revd Edmund H Fellowes
• Meet the Composer: Christopher Roberts
• Report from Recipient of JDMF grant | Heather Bourne
• Recent Research on the Viol | list by Ian Woodfield
• From the Archive: Marco Pallis | Marilyn Pocock
• Course Report: Marnaves Summer Baroque | Sam Stadlen
• On Copying a Bass Viol Bridge | interview with G Bridgewood. (David Wilson)
• From Cello to Viol | Luke Challinor
• Young Players' Pages | Gutted!

• Viols For Sale
• Dr John Catch: 19th January 1918-30th April 2013
• Report of the VdGS Summer Meeting: Cambridge June 2013 | Bianca Brajuha
• The Verse Anthem: Considerations in Performance | Bill Hunt
• Varieties of Viols | John Bryan
• On the Effectiveness of Mental Practice | Dr Phil Kearney
• 'Upon Silence' by George Benjamin | Richard Boothby
• Young Players' Pages

• Viols For Sale
• Electronic Membership | Comments invited | Susanne Heinrich
• A Viol Player's Brief History of the Low Countries: Appendix III reprinted | CJ Coggill
• Alexander Technique and Feldenkrais Method: VdGS meeting Nov 2012 | Tim Soar
• Hubert LeBlanc Defense de la basse de viole.. an introduction | Susanne Heinrich
• Whatever happened to the Society's Viol? | Sarah Turnock
• From the Archive: Elizabeth Goble | Marilyn Pocock
• Memories of the English Consort of Viols: 1957-61 | Ian Graham-Jones
• The 'Quintfidel' and Other 'Fidel'-Instruments | Susanne Heinrich
• Michael Plant: 1936-2013 | Linda Hill
• The Von Trapp Family's Viols | Elaine Mordaunt
• Skill Acquisition and Music | Dr Phil Kearney
• Instrument Making at West Dean College: The Current Situation | Colin Bullock
• Young Players' Pages
• Robert Jones' Second Book of Songs and Ayres | Richard Carter

• Viols For Sale
• Meet the Composer: Bertie Baigent
• West Dean College News | Fraser Duncumb
• Update on Geared Pegs for Viols | Stephen Pegler
• Upgrading old instruments? | Fraser Duncumb
• VdGS One-Line Journal Volume VI Contents
• The English Consort of Viols: The Wigmore Hall 1938 | Marilyn Pocock
• Harry Danks and the London Consort of Viols | Elizabeth Dodd
• More on 'Apt for Voice and Viols' | John Bryan
• Tuning the Viola da Golga | Polly Sussex
• A Viol-Player's Brief History of the Low Countries | C.J. Coggill
• The E-flat problem in English music c1580-1640 | Richard Rastall
• Young Players' Pages

• Viols For Sale
• 'Apt for Voice and Viols' | Michael Foote
• Recreating the Lyra Viol | Shem Mackey
• Purcell and his manuscripts: A British Library Conference | David King
• Jens Egeberg 1951-2012 | Patience Balslev
• VdGS Meeting at RCM 9 June 2012 | David Wilson
• Course Report: The Irish Recorder and Viol Course | Marilyn Pocock
• On Editing Jacobean Music: The Editor, The Performer and the Publisher | Richard Rastall
• The London Consort of Viols | Ian Gammie
• From the Archives | Marilyn Pocock
• Young Players' Pages
• Report from a recipient of a JDMF grant | Yusuf Lahham

• Viols For Sale
• Viols Festival in Belgium | Michael Fleming
• VdGS Editions | Hear before you buy
• More on Geared Pegs for Viols | Stephen Pegler
• Report by a recipient of a Joy Dodson Music Fund Grant | Jonathan Hill
• Meet the Composer: Sarah Gait
• Bar Numbering: An Editor's View | Richard Carter
• Bar Numbering: VdGS Members' views | Mary Iden
• PG Woodhouse and John Jenkins: A link? | Caroline Franklyn
• West Dean Short courses in musical instrument making | Colin Bullock
• Instrument ownership in Norwich, c.1600 | Tessa Murray
• The Viol, Advertising Rates
• Viol and Lute Makers of Venice 1490-1630: a new book
• From the Archives | Marilyn Pocock
• Young Players' Pages
• Engraving of Johann Schenck: more information
• Viola da Gamba Festival in Gerfalco, Tuscany
• Royal College of Music 6th International Festival of Viols

• Good News for the Joy Dodson Music Fund
• Viols For Sale
• National Centre for Early Music: Competition for Young Composers | Richard Boothby
• Geared Pegs for Viols: Further Comments | Chris Coggill
• Meet the Composer: Roy Marks
• Coda to the Great Gut Debate | Polly Sussex
• Strings from Spiders?
• 2011 VdGS Journal: List of Contents
• Johannes Schenck | Ibi Aziz
• The Bass Viol in Berlin 1740-1780 | Charles Medlam
• Bar Numbers. A Question | Stephen Pegler
• Young Players' Pages

• VdGS Viols for Hire/Sale
• Patience Waddilove | An Obituary, Susanna Pell
• Geared Pegs for Viols | Stephen Pegler
• 2011 RCM International Festival of Viols Concerts: A Report | Henry Drummond
• Course Report: NWEMF 2011 Summer School at Trafford Hall | Pat Stewart
• The End of the Gut String? Fear Not | Susanne Heinrich
• The Viol and VdGS Finances | Some Food for Thought: Responses
• Matthew Farley: Viol Maker
• Morley College Viols | Some Photos
• The Instrumentation of Orlando Gibbons's Dooble Base Fantasias | Jason Rosenholtz-Witt
• Notes about the new version of Sibelius
• Online Historical Viol Database | Thomas G. Mac Cracken
• Rondo Viol Academy | Jacqui Robertson-Wade
• Young Players' Pages

• VdGS Viols for Hire/Sale
• Elegiac Consort Songs in the Paston Manuscript Collection | Philip Taylor
• Ian Harwood 1931-2011: Lutenist and Maker Turned Viol Maker and Player | Liz Page
• Margaret Cutforth | Jacqui Robertson-Wade
• The VdGS Thematic Index: 2011 Updates | Andrew Ashbee
• VdGS Try-a-Viol Day: Oxford 9th July 2011 | Susanne Heinrich
• The Viol and VdGS Finances | Food for Thought?
• New from Italy: Viola da Gamba Day at Fiesole
• Strings and More: An Interview with Gary Bridgewood | Mary Iden
• Chalk and Soap | Edward Seymour
• Young Players' Pages

• VdGS Viols for Hire/Sale
• Membership Information
• New Editor for VdGS Online Journal
• Join the Society's Committee | Trustee Needed
• Forthcoming Auction of Dennis Nesbitt Viols 16th September 2011
• Tributes to George Hunter, 30 January 1918-26 March 2011 | Katie Hunter, Rebecca Hunter, Peter Farrell, Wendy Gillespie, Alice B. Renken, Grace Schoedel
• Richard Campbell, died 8 March 2011 Bill Hunt and tributes | Richard Boothby, Julia Hodgson, Wendy Gillespie, Susanna Pell, Asako Morikawa, Reiko Ichise
• Meeting reports from 11th June:
  The Dow Part Books, meeting 11th June Emma Tristram; Full of Art and Profundity
  The Five Part Consort Pavan John Bryan;
  Andrew Kerr: Arrangements and Reconstructions for Viols Stephen Pegler
• Meeting reports from 19th March: Soldier, Punke, Whoop and Tobacco Elizabeth Dodd
• Tips for Sibelius Software Users on the website
• VdGS Music Editions | would you like to help?
• Englishmen Abroad | The Contents of Durham Cathedral Library Music MS D010 Andrew Fowler
• A Year at West Dean Benjamin Hebbert
• Playing Viols in New Zealand Elaine Mordaunt
• Young Players' Pages
• Message from a Recipient of a Joy Dodson Music Fund Grant | Jonathan Hill

• VdGS Viols for Hire/Sale
• Membership Information
• Brian Jordan: An Obituary | Clifford Bartlett
• Is Christopher Simpson Old-Fashioned, or Should He Be Considered as Pioneering? Alison Kinder
• Barock Me Baby: The Viol Scene in Thailand David Wilson
• Recent Research on the Viol | Ian Woodfield
• Writing 'Life after Death' | Peter Holman
• Making a Baroque Viol Bow | Eitan Hoffer
• Broken Strings: Is Viol Playing a Winter Pastime? Susanne Heinrich
• Young Players' Pages
• News From Universities and Music Colleges

• Theron McClure and Brian Jordan, an obituary
• Distance Voting | Robin Adams
• The Kitten and the Bow | A cautionary tale
• Report on RCM 4th International Festival of Viols | David Wilson
• Charterhouse | Susanne Heinrich
• The World Encompassed | Orlando Gough
• The VdGS Tuning Device Survey, Part 2: Consort Tuning | Mary Iden
• The Pleasures of Internationl Networking | Julie Stobbs
• Thomas Mace and a Sense of Humour | Wendy Hancock
• First Encounters | Richard Carter
• Elizabethan Play Along, Recordings Review
• Young Players' Pages
• News from Universities and Music Colleges

• Marlene Austin, obituary | Linda Hill
• An Interview with Alison Crum | Mary Iden
• Building an Elizabethan Viol, in search of the sound Byrd might have heard | Tim Soar and Siriol Jones
• The Auckland Thomas Cole Bass Viol | Polly Sussex
• The Unequal Fretting of Viols | Richard Carter (nb. Misprinted. The corrected version was distributed with the next issue)
• Clifford Bartlett Appeal
• Young Players' News

• Robin Michael Woodbridge | An Obituary David King
• Arranging a Viol Course: The Experience of Setting Up the Fort Belan Viol Weekend | Clive Tolley
• Course Report: Viols at Fort Belan | Emma Tristram
• A New Repertoire for the Bass Viol | Charles Medlam
• The Viol in Spain | Ander Arroitajauregi
• VdGS Meeting Report: Kings Place, Saturday 19th June | Linda Hill
• The History of the VioLab "Pitchman" Tuner | Fred Reinagel
• The Cleartune Tuning System, A User Review | Stephen Pegler
• The Development of the Cleartune System |Matthew Finn
• Thoughts on Tuners 1 | Susanne Heinrich
• Thoughts on Tuners 2 | Jenny Tribe
• The VdGS Tuning Device Survey | Mary Iden

• VdGS Meeting Report Oxford March 2010 | Linda Hill
• RCM International Festival of Viols III November 2009 | Nick Pollock
• Jane Julier: Viol Maker | An Interview
• Gutless Veggies? Rhiannon Evans
• The Viennese Bass: a Giant Viola da Gamba | Tomoki Sumiya
• A Conversation with Jane Ryan
• Sainte-Colombe and the Tournus Manuscript | Horacio Bollini
• Theron McClure: The World's Oldest Viol Player? Suzanne Ferguson
• News from Music Colleges and Universities

• VdGS Meeting October 2009, London: Have You Heard the One By...?
• In Search of Lost English Viols | Thomas G. MacCracken
• Copyright and Copying: An Alternative View | Theo Wyatt
• Copyright and Copying: A Response | Clive Tolley
• The Viola da Gamba (a further extract)| E J Payne MA
• Reprinted from Proceedings of the Musical Association, 15th Session (1888-1889)
• More About Payne and His Viols | Thomas G. MacCracken
• Captain Tobias Hume Prankster or Genius? Susanne Heinrich
• Captain Hume's "Invention For Two to Play Upon One Viole" | Karl Neumann
• Reprinted from Journal of the American Musicological Society vol. 22, no. 1 (Spring 1969)
• Course Report: NWEMF Renaissance Summer School| Ambleside Ruth Harris
• 'The Viol Rules' | Alison Crum's New Book is Launched
• Typesetting Early Music | Stephen Pegler
• Concert-life in 1649: A Tweet from Edward Benlowes | David Pinto

• Ask Your Viol Teacher | Frets: Reprinted from the VdGSA News March 1999
• David Freeman | An Obituary
• Michael Groser | An Obituary
• Carbon Fibre Bows for Viols: Tim Soar
• Course Report | NORVIS 2009 1-8 August, Durham: Edna Coop
• The Viola da Gamba: E J Payne MA
• Copyright and Copying: An Alternative View Theo Wyatt
• Recent Research on the Viol: Ian Woodfield

• A Message from Your Administrator: Susanne Heinrich.
• Report of VdGS Meeting at University of Huddersfield June 2009: Andrew Fowler.
• Postcode Distribution of VdGS Members as at June 2009: Stephen Pegler.
• A 'Soundposted' Renaissance Viol: Ander Arroitajauregi Aranburu .
• Narcissus Marsh's Viol Manuscripts and Musical Investigations: Andrew Robinson.
• Michael Plant, Viol Maker: Shirley Plant.
• From the Archives | 6th Exhibition of Early Musical Instruments London November 1983 An Exhibitor's View: Michael Plant.
• The Viola da Gamba in Argentina: Horacio Bollini.

• A Message from the Winner of the Kessler Viol Raffle: Esha Neogy.
• The Violone and Violone Grosso of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos: Peter McCarthy.
• The Pardessus de Viole and Quinton | A History: Dr Michael Mullen.
• The Royal College of Music Festival of Viols | A Report: Nick Pollock.
• A Note on Dating Two Anthems by Byrd: Richard Turbet.
• Trio Sonata Playing Day at Benslow | A Report: Sarah Turnock.
• Some Viol-Related Manuscripts and Printed Music in the RCM Collection: Dr Michael Mullen.
• Paddy Turner 1931-2008: An Obituary: Jenny Tribe.

• The Solo Bass Viol Suite in France 1650-1700: Charles Medlam.
• VdGS Meeting Report November 2008: Restoring the Kessler Collection of Viols
• Course Reports: Norvis, Alston Hall, NWEMF at Ambleside
• Viols in China - A Pioneering Visit? Alison Crum.
• Julian Boby - An Obituary: Mary Iden.
• The Restoration of a Swedish Viol: John Topham.
• 'After West Dean' Diary: Toby Rzepka.

• Course Report | The 12th Annual Laboratorio di Musica Antica: Enrico Silvestri.
• Copyright and Copying: Sally Morris.
• Two Items of Interest: Andrew Ashbee.
• Body Percussion | How it Can Help Your Viol Playing: Michael Bruessing.
• The English Pavan and Galliard for Viols and the Art of Keyboard Intabulation: David J Smith.
• Sarah Paget | January 28th 1940 to September 18th 2008: Julie Stobbs.
• Understanding Your Viol and Its Care: Julian Boby.
• A Letter from the Czech Republic: David Freeman

• Voices and Viols In Performance: Clare Griffel.
• A Talk Given at the March 2008 VdGS meeting in Oxford.
• Oyez! Fresh Thoughts About the "Cries of London" Repertory: John Milsom.
• Brief Summary of a Talk Given at the March 2008 VdGS meeting in Oxford.
• Style & Spirit | The Importance of Gestures & Ornaments in the Music of Marin Marais: Tal Arbel.
• A Talk Given at the June 2008 VdGS meeting in Warwick.
• Lady Godiva | Only a Fiver? Report on the 5 Day Viol-Making Challenge: Jane Julier.
• Your Chance to Win the 5-Day Viol for the Price of a Raffle Ticket!
• The Ueno Gakuen Collection of Early Instruments, Tokyo: Stephen Pegler.
• Trio Sonata Day | Cheltenham February 2008: A Report
• Viols and Voices in Venice with Philip Thorby | February 2008: Ken Thomson.
• VdGS Baryton Playing Day | London April 2008: Michael Mullen.
• The Aquila Strings Workshop: Mary Iden.
• Makers in the Making | West Dean Diary: Toby Rzepka.

• The (New) Renaissance of the Consort Song: Loren Ludwig. A Talk Given at the March 2008 VdGS meeting in Oxford
• Ruth Dodd 1919-2007 | An Obituary: John Catch
• The Well-Tempered Consort: Ruth Dodd
• 'Isabella's Garden' and 'Snow in Bologna' | Two Poems: Vivien Jones
• Seeing the Wood from the Trees: Jane Julier
• Keeping It Alive | Some Thoughts on the Viola da Gamba as a Musical Ambassador: Tal Arbel
• Makers in the Making | West Dean Diary: Toby Rzepka
• Viol-Making in Beijing: Charlie Ogle | Download this PDF article
• Morley Viols | Easter Concert and End of Term Report: Esha Neogy and Ibi Aziz
• Recent Research on the Viol: Ian Woodfield From Journal of VdGSA 43 (2006): 69-71
• Ask Your Viol Teacher | Reprinted from the VdGSA News Vol. XLII, No 1
• 'Apt both for viols and voices' | A Review of an Edition of John Ward Madrigals and Some Questions about the Visual Aspect of Consort Music: Caroline Ritchie
• From the Archives | On the Training of Audiences and Others: Sheila Marshall

• Report on VdGS Autumn Meeting about Godrey Finger
• Report on RCM International Festival of Viols November 2007
• VdGS Music Editions Recall
• The New VdGS Journal
• Byrd's Choral Songs with Viols: Richard Turbet
• A Thematic Index From The Stone Age: James V. Whittaker
• Tuning and Temperament Revisited Again: Richard Campbell and John Catch
• The Kessler Collection: Marc Soubeyran
• The Carved Head of the Henry Jaye Bass Viol JP 21: David Pinto
• From the Archives: Peg's Pegs (First printed in The Bulletin of the VdGS June 1966)
• Makers in the Making | West Dean Diary: Toby Rzepka

• The Ruby Viol - In Praise of a Re-born Hybrid: Jan Goorissen
• Teaching Techniques and Resources: Jacqui Robertson-Wade and Alison Kinder
• Isabella Pillath 1952-2007: Dr David J Smith and Alison Crum
• Pan-Pacific Gamba Gathering: John Bryan
• Course Report | NWEMF Summer School, Ambleside July 2007: Bianca Brajuda
• Reports of the VdGS Summer Course for New Viol Players: Caroline Dunn, Louise McInnes and Christopher Edge
• Dr Helene la Rue (1951-2007) | Two Tributes: Michael Fleming and Alison Kinder
• Examinations in Viol Playing? Michael Steinkuehler
• Tuning and Temperament Revisited: Thomas Munck, Stuart McCoy & Richard Carter
• The Jaye Project: Michael Fleming, Thomas MacCracken, and Klaus Martius
• An Introduction to the Baryton: Jeremy Brooker
• Building Barytons: Owen Morse-Brown
• Makers in the Making - West Dean Diary Start of Year 2: Toby Rzepka

• The Dow Partbooks: Margaret Bent A Talk Given at VdGS AGM Oxford March 2007
• An Introduction to the VDGS Picture Archive: Patsy Campbell (Talk Given at VdGS AGM Oxford March 2007)
• Music So Long in Favour with Performers of Limited Powers - An extract from A General History of Music 1789: Dr Charles Burney
• Fretting; The Historical Evidence: John Catch
• Yes, We Have No Tenors: Oliver Hirsch
• From the Archives: Viol Consorts at the Haslemere FestivalFirst printed in The Bulletin of the VdGS November 1953.
• "Invisible Fiddlers" | Viols & Shakespeare: Gerald Place
• The Story of a Viol Part II | The Restoration: Federico Lowenberger
• Ask Your Viol Teacher | Aspects of Bowing Technique Reprinted from the Newsletter of VdGS America
• The Kessler Collection
• A Festival of Evensongs in Cambridge Colleges: Bill Hunt

• Viols and Tuning | Presentation Given at VdGS Meeting October 2006: Elizabeth Liddle
• 'Not unlike a confused singing of birds in a grove' | An Introduction to the In Nomine: John Bryan
• In Nomine Settings for Consort | A very roughly chronological checklist: John Bryan
• Biographical Notes for Some Little-Known Composers of In Nomines: Andrew Ashbee
• In Nomine | An Obscure Designation: Virginia Brookes
• In Nomine Composition Competition.
• A Composer's-Eye View of the In Nomine: John
• Why Playing the 'In Nomine' is Not Boring | A Player's View: Richard Campbell
• The In Nomine Today | Challenges for Performers and Composers: Rebecca Rowe
• Byrd and the Bees | 'In manus tuas': David Pinto
• Dietrich Kessler Remembered
• Makers in the Making - West Dean Diary Term 2: Toby Rzepka

• Tunes, Textures and Tonalities | Some Thoughts on Structure in English Consort-Music: Richard Rastall
• A List of the Consort Songs for Voice and Viols by William Byrd
• Consort Songs by William Byrd (1539-1623): Laurence Dreyfus
• 'O Worthy Queen' | Byrd's Elegy for Mary I: Philip Taylor
• William Byrd, the Catholics and the Consort Song | The Hearing Continued: Rebecca Redmann
• Some Neglected Consort Songs by Byrd: Richard Turbet
• '….made into Musicke of fiue [=1+4] parts' | Voice-and-Viols Versions of Some Byrd 'psalmes', 'sonets' and 'songs of sadnes and pietie': Mike Smith
• Christopher Wood and the Chantry Suite: Dr Micaela Schmitz
• Tous les Matins du Monde: Jean-Louis Charbonnier
• From the Archives: Peg's Clefs (First printed in the Bulletin of VdGS January 1967)
• First Encounters | A Christmas Baby: Ingrid Glass
• Until I Saw Your Foot | a poem: Heather Wastie
• Makers in the Making | West Dean Diary Term 1: Toby Rzepka
• The Viol Scene in Japan: Toby Rzepka

• Ivory and Stone Towers | Report of VdGS Byrd Playing Day July 06: Irene Auerbach
• The Story of a Viol | The Restoration of an Early Viol: Federico Lowenberger
• The Samacchini Bow: Antonino Airenti
• Making Renaissance Viols | An Interview: Richard Jones
• More Questions than Answers | 16th Century Venetian Viols in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna: Richard Carter
• Playing Renaissance Viols: Stephen Pegler and Thomas Munck
• Two Poems: Vivien Jones
• Dendrochronology and its Role in Assessing Old Musical Instruments including Viols: John Topham
• Viol Music in the Bodleian Library: Peter Ward Jones
• Recent Research on The Viol: Ian Woodfield

• Report of VdGS Meeting: West Dean College May 27th 2006 | Stephen Bowen
• A Postscript to Peter Leycester and 'A Book of Lessons for the Lyro=Viol to play alone in several Tunings': Richard Carter
• Posture in Viol Playing: Ian Woodfield reprinted from Early Music Vol.6 (1) 1978
• A Painful Pleasure | The Sport of Music: Fiona Clarey
• Ask your Viol Teacher | Tips on Holding the Viol and Foot Position. Reprinted from the VdGS of America Newsletter
• Taking Time | A Brief Introduction to the Alexander Technique: Susanna Pell
• All Downhill after 25? A Personal Memorandum: Richard Carter
• Healthy Practice Habits (as recomended by BAPAM)
• Managing Performance Anxiety: Philip Wilkinson
• From the Archives: Extracts from the VdGS Bulletin June 1952
• Letter from Denmark: Patience Baslev

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• Music and CD Reviews