Michael Stokes

7 comments By Michael Stokes

  • The journey we all make as students when we first aspire to be great comes home to roost in holding solitary court for our want to play for just ourselves in blissful tonecolours and sonorous rich melodies of lore in the commendment to the ages of there great composers.
    Bless the beasts and the children under clouds of white, blue skies and trees of green.
    I LOVE YOU BEAUTIFUL CHILDREN

  • Luckily for all my research over 30 years have come to fruition and the results of my endless due diligence is one thing that will never replace the naturally superior product that is not predicated upon PC prejudice.
    I only have used natural products with already made parts and accessories to out perform, out class and leave all mans lane ego-center dogma in the dust of my biws rosinm thank you.

    Commented on: 12 March 2020

    Sarah Markle bow hair

    Cellist plays with synthetic bow hair

  • They are The Italiano Quartetto. : )

    Commented on: 8 February 2020

    1930s violins

    Whittall Stradivarius Collection

  • The glass fiber violoncello does have similarity of resonance to a real violoncello in many ways.
    I have always thought more attention to bridge making, tailpiece technology and string lengths for the violin family of bowed string instruments outside of the instruments body and inside as well for further development.
    Lord Menuhin would only been most pleased to learn of the musicianship of performers evolving their own niches' quite well. Over time maybe these types of material man made instruments even though I have not seen results of such projections even.
    The world of all bowed string instruments performers may move freely in thought, note and wrote.
    Thank you dear friends of " The Strad Magazine, " for really glimpes of reality with such grand videos of this wonderful violoncellist and her ware.
    Byeee : )
    Happy Valentines Day The Strad Magazine.
    I have all your magazines except from 2001-2006 in Seattle. Those are on loan elsewhere : )

    Commented on: 4 February 2020

    Glass fibre cello

    Glass fibre cello used to play Takemitsu

  • To learn a Stradivari Violins intricate nature, one must have an understanding of the right hand.
    Rosin on a bow in the tension of the bow a player is used to with a violin that on the whole is a very sophisticated instrument
    Every part must be adjusted on the violin itself. From bridge height, taptuning, thickbessing of it and can it be tuned to 192 decibels? The tailpiece? Equal string hole distance behind the fret dull the D String and A String while the alignment of the G and E String Holes behind the fret align with the string notches there and so forth.
    Does the rosined properly tensioned to allow a Stradivari or your violins G String oscillation upon bowing have the greatest effect from that string?

    Commented on: 30 January 2020

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    Maxim Vengerov: Me and my Strads

  • From the beginning of designs, function is what is paramount when the audience we adore, practice and rehearse for to tiuch their human souls with our very musical execution, heart and desire as we become the music at our conductors hand. We thank you for being with us and give us all in the orchestras of the world much appreciation for your good taste and judgement.

    Commented on: 24 August 2019

    Asymmetric crop

    Gallery: asymmetric instruments

  • Thank you for the recommendation for the use of heavier bows with the Stradivari Violins and the fine faithful copies. I use snakewood bows of the octagonal designs copied from great masters of the past. Snakewood is really a dense wood so in use it feels as though my violins and violas sounds travel faster to the front rows of halls where I perform. Thank you all fellow Violin Family Of Bowed String Instruments Friends.