THE TALENTED LUTHIER
The back and sides were crafted from a poplar log he found washed up on a beach: “I could see there was a violin in there.”
Steve Burnett is a man who loves trees and makes them sing in memory of great literary figures by transforming their substance into finely crafted violins. The Edinburgh-based luthier sees himself as “giving trees a voice for our struggling environment”.
Burnett makes his violins, violas and cellos according to the principles established by the Golden Age of 18th-century Italian makers such as Stradivari and Guarneri. The 56-year-old violinmaker and environmental campaigner has also made headlines by creating a series of instruments crafted in timber from sites associated with notable literary figures, such as
