Instruments

Figure 9: The head of the cello is remarkably well preserved

Deconstructing the Andrea Amati ‘King’ cello

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In an article from June 2015, Matthew Zeller examines five centuries of alterations made to the world’s oldest cello, housed at the National Music Museum in Vermillion, South Dakota, and asks what they reveal about the evolution and development of the standard cello form

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In Focus: a 1786 cello by Jacques Pierre Michelot

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John Dilworth examines a hastily built but robust 1786 French cello, with photos by Richard Valencia, in an article from September 2005