The King's Noyse, David Douglass

The King's Noyse, the leading, North American, Renaissance-style violin ensemble was founded by David Douglass. Douglass, a faculty member at Aston Magna Academy, teacher at early music institutes, workshops, and festivals, and lecturer on early violin technique, founded the group as an outgrowth of his studies in that field. Douglass notes that other stringed instruments of the period such as the lute and the various viols are the subjects of treatises and teaching books dating from the Renaissance, but there is little of this nature concerning the violin family. The techniq...