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Never to be a drab four

The Edinburgh Quartet is changing.

To say this about Scotland's only permanent, and by far its longest-enduring, string quartet may sound ominous to listeners who like things as they are. But it is not necessarily saying something nobody knows. The players, in their prolonged search for a new leader, a new Edinburgh venue, and a new group attitude, have been for some years in such a constant state of flux that change, however unostentatiously, has become their running theme.