In the April 2019 issue of The Strad, Rudolf Hopfner explains how the neck root and top-block of a Jacob Stainer violin made after 1650 gives insights into his working methods – and solves a mystery about the maker’s training in the process.
This video, made up of hundreds of CT slices, gives a 3D look at the composition of the top-block, ribs and neck root. The two pins embedded in the top-block went undiscovered until the instrument underwent CT scanning.
Although the Covid pandemic is regarded as over, musicians around the world are still suffering its effects. What support is there for victims of Long Covid?
John Dilworth explains how hard-working beetles provide one of lutherie’s vital ingredients
Bradley Strauchen-Scherer takes a closer look at a viola from one of the most important makers of the violin family
Why do we value beauty, and where does it come from? Violin maker Yoshiharu Ito traces a path from Stradivari to Japanese concepts of shadow and impermanence in search of what the violin is still capable of becoming
Held from 28 June to 2 July 2026, Libby Summers reports back from the inaugural RAB Trust Bow Course, where a cohort of students were hand-picked to learn the art of rehairing a bow from scratch
While the Polish luthier made more than 200 violins during his lifetime, only a handful of cellos are known. In the second of two articles marking the 160th anniversary of his birth on 25 June 1866, Grzegorz Kaproń looks at his limited forays into cello making, while Henry Riedstra examines ...
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