BBC Sherlock Fan Forum - Serving Sherlockians since February 2012 / Sherlock Holmes Violin

**Posted by Davina** August 23, 2012 11:35 am

In 2009 Steve Burnett an Edinburgh violin maker made this violin to mark the 150th anniversary of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's birth. It was made from an old sycamore tree that used to stand in the garden of Liberton Bank House which was Conan Doyle's childhood home- now Dunedin School.

**Posted by Lupin** August 25, 2012 4:11 am

My interest in violins developed after reading Holmes. Ah, a legendary Stradivarius...you can see some surviving examples in the Smithsonian in Washington DC.

**Posted by The Doctor** August 25, 2012 11:12 pm

Ah, the Stradivari.. there has been a lot of controversy around their presumed superiority - I still cried when I held my first Stradivarius though!

**Posted by Lupin** August 26, 2012 5:52 pm

They are legendary instruments. I had a friend who had a Stradivarius cello. They can be divine instruments.

**Posted by Sherlock Holmes** August 27, 2012 1:09 pm

Yay, violins are awesome.