'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.

	No, 30, Spring 2013 (Editor: Mary Iden, Front Cover: Ted Copper) Content to come

	No, 29, Autumn 2012 (Editor: Mary Iden, Front Cover: Ted Copper) CONTENTS VdGS Contact Information VdGS Meetings 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 Music Reviews, CD Review New CD Releases Young Players' Pages Course and Concert Listings

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	No, 28, Autumn 2012 (Editor: Mary Iden, Front Cover: Ted Copper) CONTENTS VdGS Contact Information VdGS Meetings 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 New CD Releases New Publications of Music, Music Reviews From the Archives - Marilyn Pocock Young Players' Pages Course and Concert Listings Report from a recipient of a JDMF grant - Yusuf Lahham

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No, 27, Summer 2012 (Editor: Mary Iden, Front Cover: Ted Copper) CONTENTS VdGS Contact Information VdGS Meetings 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 New CD Releases, CD Reviews The Viol, Advertising Rates Viol and Lute Makers of Venice 1490-1630: a new book New Publications of Music, Music Reviews From the Archives - Marilyn Pocock Young Players' Pages Course and Concert Listings Engraving of Johann Schenck: more information Viola da Gamba Festival in Gerfalco, Tuscany Royal College of Music 6th International Festival of Viols

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		No.26, Spring 2012. (Editor: Mary Iden, Front Cover: Ted Copper) CONTENTS VdGS Contact Information VdGS Meetings 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 New CD Releases, CD Reviews New Publications of Music, Music Reviews Bar Numbers - A Question Stephen Pegler Young Players' Pages Course and Concert Listings

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		No.25, Winter 2011/12. (Editor: Mary Iden, Front Cover: Ted Copper) CONTENTS VdGS Contact Information VdGS Meetings 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 New CD Releases, CD Review New Publications of Music, Music Reviews Rondo Viol Academy, Jacqui Robertson-Wade Young Players' Pages Concerts, Courses and Events

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		No.24, Autumn 2011. (Editor: Mary Iden, Front Cover: Ted Copper) CONTENTS VdGS Contact Information VdGS Meetings 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 New Publications of Music, Music Review Young Players' Pages Concerts, Courses and Events

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

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

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

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