herbert a. woodsford, 1931. who's herbert woodsford?erbert woodsford was my great-great-uncle who made the violin, a jersey man, in 1931. he was a cabinet maker for the firm tagushi's and he was also an amateur violinist who played in shows and orchestras in the island. and i believe, from what my aunt, who is in her nineties has told me he just wanted to try and make a violin from the spare bits of wood he had when he was making his cabinets. so this could have been a wardrobe. it could have been a wardrobe. and it ended up as a violin. well, that's often the case. very often that people who like making violins can't simply make a business out of it but they actually have to do it as a part-time thing. he's chosen some lovely wood. on the back here we've got birds-eye maple. the areas where one thinks that he might be a touch of an amateur are these double black lines known as purfling. they aren't particularly regular but the modeling and by modeling, we mean the sort of three-dimensionality of it is actually very, very good indeed. i