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NewsFrank Peter Zimmermann forced to hand back ‘Lady Inchiquin’ Stradivarius
The violinist, who turns 50 this Friday, is attempting to buy the instrument, which was previously on loan from failed bank WestLB AG
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NewsCalling Canadian violinists and cellists: applications now open for Musical Instrument Bank
The Canadian organisation loans fine instruments and bows to musicians every three years
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ArticleThe Mills Violano Virtuoso † a self-playing violin
The self-playing Violano-Virtuoso was invented by the Mills Novelty Company † Chicago-based specialists in slot machines, vending machines and juke boxes † in the early 1900s when player pianos and mechanical coin-operated devices were extremely popular. Early models were called Automatic Virtuosa and later a piano mechanism was ...
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Premium ❘ FocusFinding the right chin rest and shoulder rest
Your violin set-up needs to fit you, not the other way round, says late starter Lawrence Proulx, whose painful playing position sent him in search of a custom chin rest and shoulder rest
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BlogsThe Campanula: a new option for stringed instrument players
Helmut Bleffert’s instrument features four playing and 16 sympathetic strings, writes former Berlin Philharmonic principal cellist Georg Faust. Watch a video below.
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NewsViolin sound and design developed by accident, say researchers
The evolution of f-hole shape and back plate thickness are likely the result of small errors in the copying process
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NewsCellos are too big to be transported in the cabin, says airline
Air Canada refused to sell Richard Harwood an extra ticket for his cello as it exceeded the requisite dimensions, according to the musician
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GalleryFrom the Archive: a violin by Joseph Guarnerius, filius Andreae
This illustration of a violin by Joseph Guarnerius, filius Andreae was published in The Strad, July 1937. The following text is extracted from the article accompanying the photographs:This violin is of especial interest inasmuch, according to the eminent authority Mr Alfred Hill, there are distinct signs that Joseph Guarnerius del ...
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ArticleGlenn Donnellan plays his electric baseball bat violin
National Symphony Orchestra violinist Glenn Donnellan plays the American national anthem at a Washington Nationals game on his 'Electric Slugger', an electric violin he made himself from a Louisville Slugger baseball bat. Skip to 1.30mins for the beginning of his performance.Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital ...
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NewsJulian Lloyd Webber to sell his Stradivarius cello
The cellist was forced to retire from performing last year due to a neck injury
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ArticleViolincopter: how to make a violin soar
One of the web's more bizarre videos... What do you get if you combine a violin with a helicopter? A violincopter of course! Watch Alejo Pesce's instrument fly...Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free trial. To purchase single issues click ...
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GalleryFrom the Archive: Antonio Stradivarius ‘Goddard’ violin, Cremona, 1686
This illustration of the ‘Goddard’ Stradivarius violin was published in The Strad, May 1964. The following text is extracted from the article accompanying the photographs:This Stradivarius was made at the period when – to quote Messers Hill – Stradivarius ‘reached the plentitude of his powers as a craftsman’.The Strad is ...
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ArticleBBC documentary investigates the life and work of Stradivarius - part 1
Clemency Burton-Hill investigates the life and work of Antonio Stradivari in a BBC documentary from 2013, including close-up analysis of his 'Serdet', 'Viotti' and 'Messiah' violins. Violinist Jennifer Pike also takes part. Part two of the programme features The Strad magazine.Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital ...
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ArticleBBC documentary investigates the life and work of Stradivarius - part 2
Clemency Burton-Hill investigates the life and work of Antonio Stradivari in a BBC documentary from 2013, including close-up analysis of his ‘Serdet’, ‘Viotti’ and ‘Messiah’ violins. Violinist Jennifer Pike also takes part. Watch part one of the programme.Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part ...
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ArticleAnne Akiko Meyers talks about her violins
You're installing your personality into this piece of wood, which is still very much alive'Violinist Anne Akiko Meyers talks about her Stradivarius and Guarneri del Gesù instruments as part of a CBS news report on violin making.Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of ...
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NewsThe Strad February 2015 issue is out now
Philippe Graffin, Jean-Jacques Kantorow, Benoît Rolland and Paul Tortelier all feature in a French-focused edition
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NewsViolins of Hope: an exhibition at the Berlin Philharmonie
27 January is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. To mark the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz in 1945, members of the Berlin Philharmonic will play a special chamber concert this evening, using the instruments of Jewish musicians who fled from the Nazis in Germany or survived ...
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GalleryFrom the Archive: a Carlo Antonio Testore violin, 1743
This illustration of a Carlo Antonio Testore violin was published in The Strad, November 1916. The following text is extracted from the article accompanying the photographs:Much of the work of the Testore family is roughly or carelessly finished, but that this was due to any lack of executive skill is ...
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Article5 solutions to slipping violin pegs
Online piano and violin tutor Alison Sparrow demonstrates five ways to prevent slipping violin pegs.Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free trial. To purchase single issues click here.
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NewsFrank Peter Zimmermann to part ways with ‘Lady Inchiquin’ Stradivarius
The instrument is part of the art collection of the failed Düsseldorf-based bank WestLB AG and will be auctioned off
