All Historical articles – Page 28
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NewsViolin dealers Gand & Bernardel sales code finally revealed
The Parisian firm’s ledgers have remained encrypted for up to 170 years
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GalleryFrom the Archive: a violin by Benjamin Banks, Salisbury, 1790
This illustration of the 1790 violin by Benjamin Banks was published in The Strad, October 1985. The following text is extracted from the article accompanying the photographs:Benjamin Banks is one of the major figures of British violin making. This particularly interesting and well-preserved example of his work, dated ...
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ArticleBach duet on 1734 Stradivarius and Guarneri del Gesù violins
Chicago Symphony Orchestra assistant concertmaster David Taylor and his former student Clarissa Bevilacqua perform on two violins made in 1734 - the Antonio Stradivari 'Lam, ex Scotland' and the Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesù 'Prince Doria' - housed at the Museo del Violino in Cremona, Italy. The performance ...
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GalleryFrom the Archive: a violin by Stradivarius, 1689
This illustration of a 1689 violin by Antonio Stradivari was published in The Strad, August 1985. The following text is extracted from the article accompanying the photographs:This month's cover features a 1689 Stradivari violin recently discovered in Switzerland. The instrument is stylistically typical of the period between 1685 ...
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Premium ❘ GalleryFrom the Archive: the 'Ferdinand David' J.B. Vuillaume, Paris, 1840-5
This illustration of a violin by J.B. Vuillaume was published in The Strad, June 1968
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FocusMost early American violin makers had no formal training
An astonishing number of early US makers approached the craft with nothing other than skill with woodworking tools, writes Philip Kass
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Premium ❘ GalleryFrom the Archive: a violin by Carlo Guadagnini, Turin, 1806
An illustration of a violin by Carlo Guadagnini published in The Strad, September 1961
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Premium ❘ FocusAnalysing a Mantegazza viola, 1796
The large proportions of this instrument give it a powerful sound that make it ideal for string quartets, says Sam Zygmuntowicz
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Premium ❘ GalleryFrom the Archive: a cello by Matteo Goffriller, Venice
This illustration of a cello by Matteo Goffriller was published in The Strad, January 1924. The following text is extracted from the article accompanying the photographs: This violincello in the Lutyens collection is a finer specimen than any instrument I have yet seen except those by the finest of all ...
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GalleryYale School of Music: The Petryn Collection
The Yale Collection of Musical Instruments recently acquired more than 20 stringed instruments and bows from the Andrew F. Petryn Collection. Here are five of the highlights: violins by Nicolò Amati, Matthias Klotz and Johann Klotz, an 18th-century English cello, and a c.1770 quinton by Nicolas Augustin Chappuy. ...
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Premium ❘ GalleryFrom the Archive: a violin by John Hare, 1720
This illustration of a violin by John Hare was published in The Strad, October 1913. The following text is extracted from the article accompanying the photographs
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GalleryFrom the Archive: a violin by Stefano Scarampella, Mantua, 1901
This illustration of a violin by Stefano Scarampella was published in The Strad, July 1958. The following text is extracted from the article accompanying the photographs: The founder of the Scarampella family of violin makers, which originated in Brescia, was Paolo who was born in Brescia in 1803 and died ...
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GalleryA 1963 violin by Otello Bignami
This is a 1963 violin by Otello Bignami, one of the key figures in 20th-century Bolognese lutherie, who was born 100 years ago this year. Instruments of the Bologna school demonstrates the following features, as defined by Bignami in 1984: 'The purfling is peculiar, in that it is made up ...
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GalleryFrom the Archive: a violin by Giovanni Francesco Pressenda, Turin c1820
Thess photographs of a violin by Giovanni Francesco Pressenda was published in The Strad, January 1959. The following text is extracted from the accompanying article
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GalleryFrom the Archive: a violin by Carlo Bergonzi, Cremona, 1732, ‘Tarisio’
This illustration of a violin by Carlo Bergonzi was published in The Strad, June 1964. The following text is extracted from the article accompanying the photographs: Carlo Bergonzi will always rank as one of the greatest of the Cremonese makers as a number of his violins equal in originality and ...
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GalleryFrom the Archive: a violin by Santo Serafino, Venice, 1737
This illustration of a violin by Santo Serafino was published in The Strad, May 1930. The following text is extracted from the article accompanying the photographs: With Santo Serafino one has an exceptional instance among the great masters of instrument-making, of the development of beauty of appearance in his productions, ...
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Premium ❘ GalleryFrom the Archive: the ‘Louis Spohr’ Guadagnini violin
This illustration of a violin by G.B. Guadagnini was published in The Strad, July 1930. The following text is extracted from an article accompanying the photographs: This instrument is one of the very finest specimens of the Turin work of Guadagnini in existence. It was privately possessed for many years, ...
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GalleryFrom the Archive: a violin by Giovanni Grancino, 1697
This illustration of a 1697 violin by Giovanni Grancino was published in The Strad, July 1928. The following text is extracted from an article accompanying the photographs: Thought the illustrated Grancino is early in date and somewhat indefinite in style, it is large in pattern, comparatively flat in model, whilst ...
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Premium ❘ GalleryFrom the archive: a viola by Jacob Stainer, 1670
This illustration of a viola by Jacob Stainer was published in The Strad, May 1925. The following text is extracted from an article accompanying the photographs: Mr Posner’s Stainer viola is easily the finest, in every respect, known to me. It measures 16 11/16ths in body length, the upper bouts ...
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Premium ❘ GalleryFrom the archive: a violin by Joseph Guarneri del Gesu, 1738
This illustration of a violin by Giuseppe Guarneri 'del Gesu' was published in The Strad, January 1925. The following text is extracted from an article accompanying the photographs: This wonderful Joseph is indeed a fiddle which justifies the use of superlatives in any attempt to describe it, and one is ...
