Claire Givens was recently featured on the cover and in a profile of the September issue of Women’s Press magazine. The profile entitled “Heartstrings” discusses how Claire Givens started her business and her current projects. Please click here to read the full article.

Andrew Dipper has just finished the 1st translation into English of the Italian manuscript “Librem Segreti de Buttegha”, Secrets of the Workshop. He has been working on it for the last 20 years. The manuscript is a fascinating and useful document dating from mid 1700’s on Northern Italian violin design methods. This translation includes Dipper’s notes and commentary on the design methods. The Strad is publishing an article about this manuscript in the March, 2013 issue.