Lutherie – Page 74
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BlogsVadim Repin plays seven Stradivarius and Guarneri violins
The instruments are part of Christie's 'The Art of Music' sale
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ArticleCaught on security camera: insurance worker steals £300,000 viola from London train
Last month we reported that UK insurance worker Stephen Tillyer had been found guilty of stealing a £300,000 16th-century viola, mistakenly left on a train by London Symphony Orchestra principal violist Edward Vanderspar.Vanderspar forgot to pick up his instrument when he alighted at his station from the London ...
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NewsAirline smashes Colorado orchestral musician’s double bass
Karl Fenner has published pictures of his badly damaged instrument and case on social media
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ArticleCaught on security camera: woman steals violin from Canadian store
A woman was captured on security camera last week stealing a violin worth $2,616 from Fantasie Music in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The woman is shown brazenly wrapping the instrument - a Fantasie Flame Violin MV400-2 - in her jacket, as the store's owner plays violin for his customers.The ...
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NewsChristie’s exhibits $60m Stradivarius and Guarneri collection in Shanghai and Hong Kong
'The Art of Music' sale features seven violins and one cello from a private European collection
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GalleryFrom the Archive: The ‘Isador Berger’ Stradivarius violin, Cremona, 1705-10
This illustration of the ‘Isador Berger’ Stradivarius was published in The Strad, November 1960. The following text is extracted from the article accompanying the photographs:The ‘Isador Berger’ Stradivarius dates from the period 1705-1710 and is representative of the best period of his work. The instrument has for the past 70 ...
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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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FocusTop tips for travelling musicians
Before you bookMake sure you check the airline’s policy on musical instruments before you fly. You might have used the airline previously or received a recommendation from a fellow musician, but the airline may have recently changed its policy. Steve Gelfand, director of touring and travel at ...
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GalleryFrom the Archive: a violin by Raffaele Trapani, Naples, 1815
This illustration of a Raffaele Trapani violin was published in The Strad, February 1961. The following text is extracted from the article accompanying the photographs:Raffaele Trapani worked in Naples during the first quarter of the last century and is reputed to have made a considerable number of violins and a ...
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GalleryFrom the Archive: a violin by Michel Angelo Bergonzi, Cremona, 1756
This illustration of a Michel Angelo Bergonzi violin was published in The Strad, October 1960. The following text is extracted from the article accompanying the photographs:Michel Angelo Bergonzi, the son of Carlo Bergonzi, was born in 1722 and died about 1770. He was the pupil of his celebrated father with ...
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Focus'Violin making has much further yet to go' - Peter Prier
Paul Prier's tribute to his father, the late Peter Paul Prier, founder of the Violin Making School of America
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GalleryFrom the Archive: a violin by Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesù, Cremona, c.1732
This illustration of a violin by Guarneri del Gesù was published in The Strad, June 1960. The following text is extracted from the article accompanying the photographs:Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesù, the most illustrious member of the Guarneri family, had but a brief working life, and unfortunately for posterity, not a ...
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BlogsMaking a bow - from start to finish
French bow maker Roch Petitdemange is filmed by Baptiste Buob while making a violin bow at the Museum of Violin and Bow Making in Mirecourt.Watch Baptiste Buob's film of violin maker Dominique Nicosia making an instrument in Mirecourt - a revealing half-hour insight into the complicated and precise ...
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NewsUS Airways criticised for ‘passing the buck’ after losing eight violins
The instruments were finally recovered after five days and ‘hundreds of calls’, according to St Louis cello professor Ken Kulosa
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GalleryHistorical instrument collection of Carlo Alberto Carutti
Carlo Alberto Carutti's collection of plucked and bowed stringed instruments is currently on display in The Music Rooms at the Museo Civico 'Ala Ponzone' in Cremona. The collection comprises around 50 plucked instruments and a number of violins, violas, kits, hurdy-gurdies and viola d'amore, a selection of which are pictured ...
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ArticleHow gut strings are made
A step-by-step guide to the process of making gut strings for bowed instruments.Warning - contains images of animal intestines.
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BlogsMaking a violin - from start to finish
Dominique Nicosia makes a violin at the Mirecourt Museum in France
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NewsTitanic violin to go on display in two US museums in 2016
The instrument, thought to have been played by bandmaster Wallace Hartley as the ship went down, sold for a record sum in 2013
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GalleryFrom the Archive: a violin by A. and H. Amati, Cremona, 1629
This illustration of a violin by the Brothers Amati was published in The Strad, May 1960. The following text is extracted from the article accompanying the photographs:
