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RAB Trust blog

RAB bequest lathe put to good use

January 20, 2022

In the autumn of 2020 the RAB Trust received a generous bequest from the estate of Jim Read https://rabtrust.org/jim-read-bequest/ One of the items was a Record DML 305 lathe complete with a number ... Read Article

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RAB Trust ‘Round Robin’ violin

December 8, 2021

Four of our Trustees have just completed a violin to sell to raise funds.  Mark Robinson suggested the project and three other trustees quickly got on board.  Mark proposed we make a violin based on ... Read Article

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RAB Awards 2021

April 9, 2021

The year of Covid with its attendant restrictions has cast a long shadow over all of us, and for violin making students it has been a tough time; practical subjects are not easily taught at ... Read Article

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RAB Trust Zoom Talks 2021

April 9, 2021

During the lockdown of early 2021, trustee Philip Ihle had the idea of presenting a series of Zoom lectures for students, as they have missed out hugely during the pandemic, working as best they could ... Read Article

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Maurice Bouette cello 1965

January 1, 2021

The RAB Trust is delighted to have been given a cello made by the founder of the Newark School of Violin Making, Maurice Bouette. This is a generous donation from his family. Maurice made the cello ... Read Article

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Jim Read Bequest

December 2, 2020

We were surprised to receive news of another wonderful bequest to the RAB Trust within a couple of weeks of that of Bernard Wawman. Jim Read was by profession an accountant and then a management ... Read Article

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Bernard Wawman bequest

November 27, 2020

In September 2020, we received the news of a generous bequest from Bernard Wawman, a skilled amateur violin maker. He had thoughtfully made provision in his will that the contents of his workshop, a ... Read Article

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RAB Trust meet to make Awards – just in time…

April 21, 2020

The RAB Trust held their annual meeting in central London on Friday 13th March, the day before lock down measures were announced.   As the Covid-19 clouds gathered we dealt with business in the ... Read Article

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RAB Award – François Perego’s varnishing course in France

September 24, 2019

One of the RAB special awards of 2019 was a place on François Perego's varnishing course for violin makers. This was awarded to Jahnava Gargallo, a final-year student at Newark who has a background in ... Read Article

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NSVM Diploma Day 2019

July 19, 2019

RAB Trust special awards were presented by Helen Michetschläger at the Newark School of Violin Making diploma day on June 29th this year. Helen, Chair of the RAB Trust, is photographed with ... Read Article

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