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This team of eight luthiers, as part of the Adelaide Cello Festival, made a cello in the white in only 10 days. This work was undertaken in public, often going on until early hours of the morning. All eight luthiers signed the cello on the inside of the back, near the top block. The cello was set up (white) and played in concert on the last day.

A team of Luthiers undertake a 'Cello Challege' which is to make a cello in- the- white (from scratch), in public ,during the 2008 Adelaide International Cello Festival, in only 10 days. See some images of this event in the Gallery.

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.