All Lutherie articles – Page 26
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NewsEuropa Galante to play on matched string ensemble
The concert, taking place on 21 November, features eleven instruments all made by luthier Renato Scrollavezza
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BlogsLooking after your instrument: all about open seams and where to find them
What causes open seams? How do you find them? Stacey Styles from the Women in Lutherie community investigates
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News‘Kux, Castelbarco’ Stradivari viola sells for £2.5m
The c.1720 instrument was sold at auction by Tarisio in London on 31 October 2022
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BlogsLooking after your instrument: a guide for beginners (and their parents)
Instrument care is often neglected during lesson time for beginners. Here, Iris Zhulla from the Women in Lutherie community shares some tips to aid beginners and their parents
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NewsViolin maker Tetsuo Matsuda dies aged 77
Born in Japan, the luthier lived in Chicago, US, for four decades
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Premium ❘ FeatureIn Focus: A c.1750 violin by Santo Serafin
Jonathan Marolle investigates the mid-18th-century Italian instrument
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NewsTartini tones: new research shows differences in old and new instruments
An Italian team has recorded the mysterious ‘third tone’, created when playing a two-note chord, as part of its research
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BlogsLooking after your instrument: a guide on caring for your bow
Instilling good, daily habits is the key to your bow’s health, writes Suzy Schmitt from the Women in Lutherie community
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NewsTwoSet Violin loaned two Golden Age Stradivari violins
The duo will debut the instruments with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra in concert and via free livestream on 16 November
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FocusThe Strad Calendar 2023: 1784 Guadagnini violin
One of the last instruments made by the luthier, who died in 1786, the violin has a miraculously intact varnish and an excellent soprano sound with great projection
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BlogsLooking after your instrument: Fingerboards demystified
How to maintain a healthy fingerboard, including what to look out for, from Sally Mullikin of the Women in Lutherie community
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News‘An Appendix I listing would silence the voice of musicians’ - Brazil’s pernambuco foundation publishes open letter
The National Pau-Brasil Foundation strikes out against the CITES Appendix I proposal and illustrates its alternatives to ensure pernambuco’s conservation
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BlogsThe Strad’s Halloween Hall of Horrors
10 gut-wrenching photos of cruelty to cellos, brutality to basses, violence to viols and more…
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FocusJoshua Bell on playing the 'Huberman' Stradivari violin
'It has a rich sound, powerful without being shrill or strident'
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FocusThe thief, his wife and the ‘Huberman’ Strad
The ‘Gibson, Huberman’ Stradivari now owned by Joshua Bell has a history worthy of a blockbuster thriller
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News‘Pernambuco bows are irreplaceable tools for every professional stringed-instrument player’: Yo-Yo Ma
The cellist has made a statement calling for conservation and sustainable use of pernambuco, ahead of the proposal to move the species to CITES Appendix I
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BlogsPernambuco: the worst-case scenario
British luthier Benjamin Hebbert outlines the long-term devastating effects to musicians and makers that would result from the classification of pernambuco to CITES Appendix I in November
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Premium ❘ FeatureFrançois Nicolas Voirin: The style and substance of a pivotal bow maker
Matt Wehling on Voirin’s artistic and technical advances, which were implemented by most all French makers and paved the way for makers such as Lamy, Sartory and E.A. Ouchard
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FocusThe Strad Calendar 2023: c.1585 Gasparo da Salo double bass
The wood used for the front came from a 250-year-old tree, making parts of this beautiful instrument around 700 years old
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Premium ❘ Feature21st-century technology in lutherie - Making Matters: Augmented reality
Paul Noulet and Benoit Dupeux on how 21st-century technology can add to the luthier’s arsenal of violin making tools
