Lutherie – Page 89
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NewsMiklós Perényi appointed Royal Northern College of Music International Chair in Cello
The cellist joins the UK institution this year
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Blogs7 ways to build a 21st-century music career by Time for Three
Violinists Zach De Pue and Nick Kendall, and double bassist Ranaan Meyer talk about their path to success
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NewsYale Collection of Musical Instruments acquires violins by Guarneri and Amati
The bequest from the Andrew F. Petryn Collection also includes three Tourte bows
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ArticleVivaldi on the world's smallest performable violin?
A video has emerged from Venezuela of a performance of Vivaldi's Concerto in A minor on what is described as the world's smallest violin. Whether this is indeed the world's smallest performable violin, it's certainly a squeaky novelty, boasting impressive finger control. Subscribe to The Strad or ...
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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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NewsEdinburgh luthier crafts ‘Wilfred Owen Violin' to commemorate First World War
The instrument has been made from the branch of a tree growing in the grounds of the former Craiglockhart War Hospital
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GalleryFrom the Archive: a violin by Ferdinando Gagliano, Naples 1774
This illustration of a violin by Ferdinando Gagliano was published in The Strad, May 1958. The following text is extracted from the article accompanying the photographs: Ferdinando Gagliano was the eldest of the third generation of Gaglianos, a family of luthiers who enjoyed a virtual monopoly of violin making in ...
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NewsViolist Kim Kashkashian awarded Golden Bow
The annual prize is given by the Foundation of the Geigenbauschule Brienz in Switzerland
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NewsBritish Airways breaks violin
Airline staff forced the musician to check the instrument into the hold
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GalleryFrom the Archive: a violin by Joseph Guarneri filius Andrea
This illustration of a violin by Joseph Guarneri was published in The Strad, January 1914. The following text is extracted from the article accompanying the photographs: There may be many interested in Italian work who, either ‘know not Joseph’, son of Andrea Guarneri, or in some way confuse his productions ...
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From the Archive: a violin by Joseph Guarneri filius Andrea
This illustration of a violin by Joseph Guarneri was published in The Strad, January 1914. The following text is extracted from the article accompanying the photographs:There may be many interested in Italian work who, either ‘know not Joseph’, son of Andrea Guarneri, or in some way confuse his productions with ...
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FocusRecord instrument prices of the past
The sale of the ‘Lady Blunt' Stradivarius violin for £9.8m in 2011 broke all auction records, but high prices for instruments are nothing new, writes Benjamin Hebbert
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NewsYouth orchestra concertmaster, 18, loaned c.1685 ‘Sauret' Stradivarius violin
Roberto Ruisi, the 18-year-old concertmaster of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain (NYOGB), will perform on the c.1685 ‘Sauret’ Stradivarius violin for the orchestra’s final three concerts this season. The instrument, valued at £1m, has been loaned by 83-year-old violinist and teacher John Ludlow, who in ...
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Premium ❘ GalleryFrom the Archive: a violin by Pietro Giacomo Rogeri
This illustration of a violin by Pietro Giacomo Rogeri was published in The Strad, September 1913. The following text is extracted from the article accompanying the photographs: For sheer beauty of form, workmanship, varnish, and – what is or should be of supreme importance – tone, the magnificent violin pictured ...
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Premium ❘ GalleryFrom the Archive: a cello by C.G. Testore
This illustration of a cello by Carlo Giuseppe Testore was published in The Strad, July 1913. The following text is extracted from the article accompanying the photographs: The very interesting violoncello featured this month belonged at one time to Piatti, who sometimes played upon it in public and thought very ...
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NewsLipinski Stradivarius violin thief receives three-and-a-half-year prison sentence
Universal Knowledge Allah admitted supplying the Taser used to attack Milwaukee Symphony concertmaster Frank Almond
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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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NewsTop lots from June London and Vichy stringed instrument auctions
Gaglianos and a Peccatte shone in the sales
