Baroque Violin in the Highlands - read Michael Newton's paper on Academia.ed

This will interest Scottish fiddlers and Baroque violinists alike. It came up on the Academia.edu website (sometimes referred to as 'the thinking person's Facebook'):-

On the Introduction of the Baroque Violin into the Gàidhealtachd

by Michael Newton, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 

Michael has a Ph.D. in Celtic Studies from the University of Edinburgh in 1998, with a dissertation on The Tree in Scottish Gaelic Literature and Tradition.