Members of the Society receive this quarterly newsletter.

'The Viol' contains general information, ad hoc articles on viol-related topics (including reviews of meetings), information on 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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Below you can find a summary of the articles found in each issue:

No.24, Autumn 2011.    (Editor: Mary Iden, Front Cover: Ted Copper)

No.23, Summer 2011.    (Editor: Mary Iden, Front Cover: Ted Copper)

• VdGS Contact Information
• VdGS Meetings
• 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 by Richard Boothby, Julia Hodgson, Wendy Gillespie, Susanne 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
• New Publications of Music
• Music Reviews
• New CD Releases
• Young Players' Pages
• Message from a Recipient of a Joy Dodson Music Fund Grant Jonathan Hill
• Concerts, Courses and Events

No.22, Spring 2011.    (Editor: Mary Iden, Front Cover: Ted Copper)

• VdGS Contact Information
• VdGS Meetings
• 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
• CD Review
• New Publications of Music, Music Reviews
• Young Players' Pages
• News From Universities and Music Colleges
• Course and Concert Listings

No.21, Winter 2010/11.    (Editor: Mary Iden, Front Cover: Ted Copper)

• 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

No.20, Autumn 2010.    (Editor: Mary Iden, Front Cover: Ted Copper)

• 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