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'The Viol' contains general information, ad hoc articles on viol-related topics (including reviews of meetings), information on Society personnel, membership changes, Society publications, meetings, courses, viol news, instruments for hire and sale, new music publications, music & CD reviews, young players pages and correspondence.

Below you can find a summary of the articles found in each issue:

No.9, Winter 2007/8.    (Editor: Mary Iden, Front Cover: Ted Copper)

• Report on VdGS Autumn Meeting about Godrey Finger
• Report on RCM International Festival of Viols November 2007
• VdGS Music Editions Recall
• The New VdGS Journal
• Byrd's Choral Songs with Viols: Richard Turbet
• A Thematic Index From The Stone Age: James V. Whittaker
• Tuning and Temperament Revisited Again: Richard Campbell and John Catch
• The Kessler Collection: Marc Soubeyran
• The Carved Head of the Henry Jaye Bass Viol JP 21: David Pinto
• From the Archives: Peg's Pegs (First printed in The Bulletin of the VdGS June 1966)
• Makers in the Making - West Dean Diary: Toby Rzepka

No.8, Autumn 2007.    (Editor: Mary Iden, Front Cover: Ted Copper)

• The Ruby Viol - In Praise of a Re-born Hybrid: Jan Goorissen
• Teaching Techniques and Resources: Jacqui Robertson-Wade and Alison Kinder
• Isabella Pillath 1952-2007: Dr David J Smith and Alison Crum
• Pan-Pacific Gamba Gathering: John Bryan
• Course Report - NWEMF Summer School, Ambleside July 2007: Bianca Brajuda
• Reports of the VdGS Summer Course for New Viol Players:
Caroline Dunn, Louise McInnes and Christopher Edge
• Dr Hélène la Rue (1951-2007) - Two Tributes: Michael Fleming and Alison Kinder
• Examinations in Viol Playing? Michael Steinkuehler
• Tuning and Temperament Revisited:
Thomas Munck, Stuart McCoy & Richard Carter
• The Jaye Project:
Michael Fleming, Thomas MacCracken, and Klaus Martius
• An Introduction to the Baryton: Jeremy Brooker
• Building Barytons: Owen Morse-Brown
• Makers in the Making - West Dean Diary Start of Year 2: Toby Rzepka

No.7, Summer 2007.    (Editor: Mary Iden, Front Cover: Ted Copper)

• The Dow Partbooks: Margaret Bent A Talk Given at VdGS AGM Oxford March 2007
• An Introduction to the VDGS Picture Archive: Patsy Campbell
        Talk Given at VdGS AGM Oxford March 2007
• Music So Long in Favour with Performers of Limited Powers - An extract from A General History of Music 1789: Dr Charles Burney
• Fretting; The Historical Evidence: John Catch
• Yes, We Have No Tenors: Oliver Hirsch
• From the Archives: Viol Consorts at the Haslemere FestivalFirst printed in The Bulletin of the VdGS November 1953.
• "Invisible Fiddlers" - Viols & Shakespeare: Gerald Place
• The Story of a Viol Part II - The Restoration: Federico Lowenberger
• Ask Your Viol Teacher - Aspects of Bowing Technique Reprinted from the Newsletter of VdGS America
• The Kessler Collection
• A Festival of Evensongs in Cambridge Colleges: Bill Hunt

No.6, Spring 2007.    (Editor: Mary Iden, Front Cover: Ted Copper)

• Viols and Tuning - Presentation Given at VdGS Meeting October 2006: Elizabeth Liddle
• 'Not unlike a confused singing of birds in a grove' - An Introduction to the In Nomine: John Bryan
• In Nomine Settings for Consort - A very roughly chronological checklist: John Bryan
• Biographical Notes for Some Little-Known Composers of In Nomines: Andrew Ashbee
• In Nomine - An Obscure Designation: Virginia Brookes
• In Nomine Composition Competition.
• A Composer's-Eye View of the In Nomine: John Milsom
• Why Playing the 'In Nomine' is Not Boring - A Player's View: Richard Campbell
• The In Nomine Today - Challenges for Performers and Composers: Rebecca Rowe
• Byrd and the Bees - 'In manus tuas': David Pinto
• Dietrich Kessler Remembered
• Makers in the Making - West Dean Diary Term 2: Toby Rzepka