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Stella Chen on her 1720 ‘General Kyd’ Stradivari violin

2024-07-29T08:54:00Z

Ahead of summer performances at Music@Menlo, the violinist reflects on her beautiful instrument, no stranger to the hands of well known string players throughout history
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From the Archive: the ‘General Kyd’ Stradivarius violin, Cremona, 1714

2019-10-30T11:00:00Z

This illustration of the ‘General Kyd’ Stradivarius was published in The Strad, January 1962. The following text is extracted from the article accompanying the photographs

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Stella Chen on her 1720 ‘General Kyd’ Stradivari violin

From the Archive: the ‘General Kyd’ Stradivarius violin, Cremona, 1714