All Accessories articles – Page 14

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    Focus

    Sticky stuff: how rosin is made and how to choose the right one for your needs

    31 October 2017

    As string players we all use rosin, but how many of us understand its properties well enough to choose the type that’s right for us? Laurinel Owen investigates

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    Focus

    Case for the defence: latest developments in violin case manufacturing

    4 October 2017

    As the protective features of violin cases grow ever more sophisticated, Tom Stewart looks at how the latest innovations stack up against more classic technology

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    Blogs

    Video: listen to a violin strung with human hair

    31 July 2015

    Artist Tadas Maksimovas was struck with the idea of using his own hair to replace traditional violin strings - while still attached to his head - as part of Street Musicians' Day in Lithuania last year.The hair was divided into sections by stylist Ieva SereikytÄ— and applied with ...

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    Article

    Student creates 3D-printed violin bow

    27 May 2015

    Following hot on the heels of recent experiments by Monad Studios to create a 3D-printed violin and a 3D-printed cello, a student at the Maryland Institute College of Art in the US has created a 3D-printed violin bow. Austin Peppel is interested in recreating the sound of a ...

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    News

    Ealing Strings director Alan Mann dies aged 71

    28 February 2015

    Alan Mann, co-founder of Ealing Strings music shop in London, has died aged 71. For more than four decades he attended to the instruments of string players from around the globe; regular customers based in the British capital included Gyorgy Pauk, Robert Smissen, Paul Silverthorne and Thomas Gould.Born ...

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    Premium ❘ Focus

    Finding the right chin rest and shoulder rest

    13 February 2015

    Your violin set-up needs to fit you, not the other way round, says late starter Lawrence Proulx, whose painful playing position sent him in search of a custom chin rest and shoulder rest

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    Article

    5 solutions to slipping violin pegs

    12 January 2015

    Online piano and violin tutor Alison Sparrow demonstrates five ways to prevent slipping violin pegs.Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free trial. To purchase single issues click here.

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    Gallery

    Violin cases: security and splendour

    15 October 2014

    In Accessories 2014 we track the evolution of the violin case through some of the more impresisvely built and decorated examples