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In 2009 Bellowhead’s Sam Sweeney was looking for a new fiddle. In luthier Roger Claridge’s Oxford shop he tried out a few and one of them, newly made by one Richard S Howard, seemed to “sing” to him.
Having bought it, when he started playing he noticed a label inside reading “Made in the Great War” and which also had the union flag, the French tricolour and the Russian imperial eagle printed on it. Intrigued, he started to research the history and that’s what this show is all about.
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