The Patrick Matthew Violin
I am retired as a Home Office, London, criminologist and senior university academic. For many years I have been restoring and collecting antique violins. I am now an Associate Artist at City Arts, Nottingham where I continue to undertake all violin, viola and cello repairs completely free of charge for Nottingham Music Service, The Music Hub, Nottingham and the Robin Hood Youth Orchestra.
My professionally originated concept of "dysology", which I have written about regarding widely believed, yet empirically proven science and history bias, falsehoods and frauds, continues to influence my thinking regarding challenges faced in the violin making, restoring, repairing and retailing industry.
The Secret Violin Shop, founded in 2025, blends my interests in violin restoration and collecting with a lifelong ambition to start and enjoy working as an innovative artist and artisan in my own small arts and craft based business.
Mike Sutton, Associate Artist, City Arts Nottingham.
VIOLINS FOR SALE AT THE SECRET VIOLIN SHOP.
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Painstakenly re-built with innovative methods, C18th unlabeled Saxony (German) violin. New bass bar, unique customized radical "Secret Violin Shop" corner blocked for volume and tone, touch fitted bass-bar. Fingerboard elevated from baroque height to maximum modern height. Sebastian provides an expert performance review of this violin £2000
Célèbre Vosgien violin. French. 1890-1920 violin. Jérôme Thibouville-Lamy (JTL) in Mirecourt, France. Sebastian provides an expert performance review of this violin. Like all JTL violins it is crafted from excellent violin wood sourced from the Vosges Mountains. C19th. £1,400
THE ANSWER IS 30
And so we see that the science problem of Darwin's and Wallace's claim of miraculous virgin brained dual independent conception of a prior published theory, which both admitted was essentially the same as their own, and which Wallace wrote was even more complete, is solved by disproving the consensus that 0 people read Matthew's theory before they replicated it. Hence, any notion that mysterious forces govern the affairs of humans with otherwise amazing improbable coincidences is disproven in this case. The solution to this particular virgin conception problem is 30, which is the difference between 0 and 30. Hence, there were 30 routes for knowledge contamination to directly or indirectly prior-impregnate the brains of Darwin and Wallace with Matthew's bombshell breakthrough before they replicated it and then each claimed it as their own original idea.
From this example, we can learn how to solve the science problem of the Christian belief claim in the virgin conception of Mary with Jesus. All we need to find out is how many probably fertile human males were in a position to impregnate her.
Am I a genius? Was Matthew? Was Darwin?
If talent is the ability to score far higher on a target than most other people are able and, by contrast, being a genius is defined by the ability to be first to deliberately hit a target that no one else even imagined, does that make me a genius for originally imagining the "how many people can we prove cited Matthew's 1831 book before Darwin and Wallace in 1858/59 replicated its original content" target and then deliberately scoring on it? If so, am I then a super genius for next looking at which of those 30 who cited Matthew's book were personally known to Darwin and or Wallace and or their influencers and their influencer's influencers?
This is admittedly very self important and pretentious, even deliberately hilariously narcissistic, question. But it's a genuine question. The telling question that follows from it is: "What really makes a person a genius if not completely fact-busting a paradigm that supposed genius level scientists simply blindly believe in?" From this paradox comes the question: "What is a simple genius, as opposed to a complicated genius such as Issac Newton?" Was Patrick Matthew a simple science genius? Was Darwin a complicated genius plagiarizing science fraudster?"