Notes:

"The second instrument illustrated is from the same period of Jacobs work, and is effectively a scaled-down version of its brother. With a back length of 306mm, it is technically half-size, which Margaret Dovvnie Banks suggests is the most likely proportion for the 'violino piccolo' called for by Monteverdi and Bach. It is, by this argument, a soloist's instrument rather than a child's, but in England at this time small violins were made for boy choiristers in the choir schools."

Vain, Golden Age, John Dilworth, The Strad, September, 1991, London