All Lutherie Life articles – Page 7
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Premium ❘ FeatureMy Space: Florent Boyer
The Parisian luthier has been based in his workshop for the past 17 years
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Premium ❘ ArticleAuction Report: January 2022
The autumn sales saw a newcomer take the stage, in the form of Tarisio’s Berlin sale room. Kevin MacDonald reports on some of the highlights in London and Germany
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Premium ❘ FeatureMy Space: Maria Sandner
The Germany-based luthier specialises in making miniature violins
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VideoTrees of Music create musical campaign for Pernambuco wood with Indigenous orchestral collaboration
The campaign aims to ’save classical music by saving the Pernambuco tree’ by planting 50,000 saplings to replenish diminished supplies in Brazil
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Premium ❘ FeatureMy Space: Jurgen Preyer
The Netherlands-based luthier built the workshop in my garden, soon after moving in
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Premium ❘ FeatureMy Space: Sam Zygmuntowicz
The luthier’s workshop, based in Brooklyn, New York, is spread across two floors, and includes a ‘salon’ where customers can test their instruments. From May 2015
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Premium ❘ FeatureMy Space: Giancarlo Arcieri
The Miami-based luthier was based in New York until three years ago
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Gallery‘Noah’s Violin’ has successful Venice launch
A quartet of musicians from the Benedetto Marcello Conservatory performed Vivaldi on top of the floating instrument
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Premium ❘ ArticleAuction Report: September 2021
The June auctions in the UK capital brought together a number of interesting bows and instruments, with signs that the market is on the up and up, writes Kevin MacDonald
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Premium ❘ FeatureMy Space: Jordi Pinto
The luthier’s workshop in the centre of Barcelona has always been a family-run business
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NewsViolin crafted entirely from wood of indigenous African trees
Scientists at Stellenbosch University in South Africa embraced the project as a way to investigate new potential tonewoods and their acoustic properties
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Premium ❘ NewsAnalysis May 2021: Seeing the wood for the trees
A new campaign is under way to save Brazil’s endangered pernambuco tree, the wood most favoured by bow makers. The goal is clear, but the devil is in the detail. By Anthony Fort
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Premium ❘ ArticleAuction Report: January 2021
Despite the problems of Covid-19, the October sales went ahead as planned in London. Kevin MacDonald reviews some of the highlights
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GalleryMy Space: Violin workshops around the world
Some of the most photogenic workspaces to have graced The Strad’s pages in the past few years
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Premium ❘ ArticleAuction report: June 2020
Despite the Covid-19 pandemic, sales continued at the London auction houses in March. Kevin MacDonald gives a tour of the highlights
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Premium ❘ NewsAuction Report: January 2020
Old Italians and a modern bow proved popular at this autumn’s auctions, as Kevin MacDonald reports
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BlogsWhat happened to Ginette Neveu's Stradivari?
Delve into The Strad Archive to find out what happened after the violinist's untimely death in a 1949 plane crash