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ArticleA violin bow with a mind of its own
A violinist's enthusiastic final bow stroke makes for a finale to remember in this orchestral concert from 2013.Watch: A bow hair disasterWatch: Violist Yuri Bashmet in tailpiece disasterWatch: Violinist Christian Tetzlaff and pianist Lars Vogt in page turning catastrophe
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ArticleViolin accident: what to do when your bow flies out of your hand
Violinist Sara Delić loses control of her bow - which threatens to go flying - during a performance of Sarasate's Zigeunerweisen.Watch: A bow hair disasterWatch: Violinist Christian Tetzlaff and pianist Lars Vogt in page-turning disaster
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ArticleCellist performs Flight of the Bumblebee as endpin fails
Cellist Roberto Trainini manages to continue playing, not missing a single beat during his rendition of Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumblebee, as his cello endpin slowly slips.Read: Finding the perfect cello endpin † and how to stop it slippingWatch: Shostakovich cello tailpiece explosion
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NewsBerlin Philharmonic members fail to elect new music director
The new chief conductor and artistic director will take over from Sir Simon Rattle in 2018