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This is taken from a lecture I wrote and presented to my class of first year marketing students at James Cook University about 8 years ago.

A young violin maker experiences The Work of George Ivanovich Gurdjieff in a London group run by the Gloucester's

Violin family instruments sometimes approach the status of a mere commodity, in regard to the millions of mass produced student instruments, and sometimes have the status of collectible art objects. Some violin family instruments, particularly if they are in a superb condition and happen to have a very good sound might have 3 distinct values; for the collector, for the player because of its tonal potential and a third for an investor.

This article is taken, in part, from a piece that James wrote while working as a violinmaker in London. The year was 1976. This was later published in the book The Violin Makers: Portrait of a Living Craft by Mary Anne Alburger.