Acknowledgements
We would like to offer our grateful thanks to the many friends and colleagues who have helped us out with fact-checking, opinions, conversations, photographs, drawings, and cups of tea.
Particular thanks go to Jonathan Allen; Peter Cobbin and Kirsty Whalley; Richard Hale; James Shannon; Simon Eadon; Jonathan Willcocks; Edward Weston (Decca); Elena Turrin (Fazioli); Dr Russell Mason, Alan Haigh, and Prof. Dave Fisher (University of Surrey); Hannah Fitzgerald and Carlos Lellis (Abbey Road Institute); Anja Zoll-Khan, Steven Zissler, Giacomo Carabellese, Ross Hendrie, and Mark Thackeray (Royal Opera House, Covent Garden); Martin Schneider (Neumann GmbH); Richard Evans (Trinity School, Croydon); Emma Button, Crispin Ward, and Simon ...
