The popular podcast series Twenty Thousand Hertz looks into the stories behind the world’s most recognizable and interesting sounds. This episode focuses on the Stradivarius, asking why exactly it is reputed to have an exquisite sound that cannot be replicated or explained. Featuring interviews with violin maker Joseph Curtin and our managing editor Christian Lloyd.
In the 1998 movie The Red Violin, a great violin maker named Nicolo Bussotti, based on the real-life luthier Antonio Stradivari, supposedly mixes the blood of his deceased beloved wife into the varnish of what is to be his most precious creation. The violin’s journey, from its creation in Cremona ...
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