Why the violin is so hard to play? A pre-concert lecture by Professor Jim Woodhouse

The screeching produced by children starting out on the violin has curdled the blood of many a parent over the centuries. A pre-concert talk at the Cambridge Festival asks what science can tell us about the question "why the violin is so hard to play?".

It was as a mathematics undergraduate in the early 1970s that Jim Woodhouse came across Cambridge’s amateur violin making workshop. Always a keen ‘maker’ of things, Woodhouse developed a love of crafting string instruments that quickly spilled into his academic life, as he went on to do a PhD at the University in noise and vibration theories - focusing on the violin.

Please note that bookings for this event are separate from the concert that follows. If you wish to attend the concert, please make arrangements with the City of Cambridge Symphony Orchestra