Examines the violin's evolution as not just instrument but valued objet d'art through the eyes of musicians, collectors, makers, dealers, connoisseurs, journalists, auctioneers and traders.
TOM WILDER attended the Chicago School of Violin Making and apprenticed as an instrument restorer in Seoul, Los Angeles and Paris. He is founder of Wilder & Davis Luthiers Inc. in Montreal, a past president of the American Federation of Violin and Bow Makers, and holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge. He was editor of The Conservation, Restoration and Repair of Stringed Instruments and their Bows Volumes I, II, and III (Archetype Publications,2011).
