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Review
Book review: The Secret of Technique in Cello Playing

2020-01-31T15:46:00Z

Janet Banks reviews a book of exercises to improve violin technique, transcribed for cello
Gallery
From the Archive: a violin by Matteo Goffriller, Venice, 1696

2017-04-03T00:00:00Z

This illustration of a violin by Matteo Goffriller was published in The Strad, August 1986. The following text is extracted from the article accompanying the photographs: Hugh Bean once remarked that Albert Sammons 'got through one violin a week'. This statement is obviously an exaggeration but it does ...

All Albert Sammons articles

Book review: The Secret of Technique in Cello Playing

From the Archive: a violin by Matteo Goffriller, Venice, 1696