Foreword / Charles Beare ; Introduction / Elise Becket Smith ; Period performance and The Becket Collection / Margaret Faultless, Reinmar Seidler ; The violin and its development in Britain as seen through The Becket Collection / Andrew Fairfax ; Classical London: luthiers and music venues ; Becket classical stringed instruments ; Becket Baroque and The Vivaldi Project / David Rattray ; Classical bridges / David Rattray, Jonathan Woolston ; The Dodd family of bow makers / Philip Kass ; The Venetian school and its relevance to modern violin making / John Dilworth ; Notes on Venetian set-up / Peter Beare ; Vivaldi and Venetian music / John Julius Norwich ; The baroque sound and the baoque bow / Pavlo Beznosiuk ; Becket Baroque and The Vivaldi Project bows / Brian Tunnicliffe