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Premium ❘ FeatureMaking Matters: ‘Cryo-treatment’ of violin wood
What effect would subjecting spruce and maple to ultra-low temperatures have on their sound quality? Oliver Radke presents the results of an informal study into the ‘cryo-treatment’ of violin wood
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Premium ❘ FeatureTrade Secrets: The ‘Doratura Cremonese’ ground method
How to make and apply a ground coat with a deep golden yellow colour
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Premium ❘ Feature‘Ysaÿe’s pictures are tone paintings’ - From the archive: February 1905
US correspondent Edith L. Winn describes a stateside performance by Eugène Ysaÿe in prose so effusive that even the virtuoso would blush
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Premium ❘ ArticleProducts March 2025: Bender endpin brass and bronze screws
The Bender endpin is now available with two new screw materials
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Premium ❘ ArticleProducts March 2025: Howard Core Violin Assembly Clamp Sets
New clamp sets for a more precise assembly process
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Premium ❘ ArticleProducts March 2025: Gewa Air 2.8 viola case
Gewa releases its widest viola case yet
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Premium ❘ FocusPostcard from Bucharest: George Enescu International Competition
The long-running George Enescu Competition has now very much proved its mettle amid the international circuit, as Rita Fernandes discovers
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Premium ❘ FeatureMasterclass: Ravel Piano Trio, first movement
Keeping in mind Ravel’s orchestral sound palette is key to letting colour direct the myriad character and mood changes in this lilting movement, says cellist Carrie Bean Stute
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Premium ❘ FeatureIn Focus: 1877 double bass by Gand & Bernardel
René Zaal examines the Parisian violin making house’s 19th-century bass
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Premium ❘ FeatureMy Space: Russell Stowe’s Woodbridge workshop
The maker presents his Suffolk atelier
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Premium ❘ ArticleAnalysis February 2025: Star string players targeted online
Some of the world’s top string players have become targets for online scammers – and it doesn’t stop there. What steps should all musicians take to help protect their fanbase?
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Premium ❘ FeatureTechnique: Creating core in your viola sound
Jeanne-Louise Moolman shares tips on how to create a sound with core on the viola
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Premium ❘ NewsPremiere of the Month: Michelle Barzel Ross’s new quartet for the Juilliard Quartet
A new quartet remembers violist Roger Tapping
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Premium ❘ ArticleProducts February 2025: Turlunda cello endpin
A new endpin designed to bring out the sounds of different materials
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Premium ❘ ArticleProducts February 2025: Kremer Pigmente intense red madder lake pigment
A new colour is available in the company’s extensive madder lake pigment range
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Premium ❘ ArticleProducts February 2025: Mach One Wide violin shoulder rest
The Mach One rest is now available in a wider size
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Premium ❘ FocusSentimental Work: Glenn Dicterow on Bernstein’s Serenade after Plato’s ‘Symposium’
The New York Philharmonic’s former concertmaster recalls how he first learnt the solo part of Bernstein’s Serenade after Plato’s ‘Symposium’ before a national tour with the composer conducting
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Premium ❘ FeatureMy Space: Dínçay Gülenç’s Istanbul workshop
The luthier takes us on a tour of his Turkish workshop
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Premium ❘ FeatureMaking Matters: Strategies to fix wolf notes
Eliminating a wolf note can be the bane of every luthier’s life. Linda Lespets passes on four methods that can help to solve the problem
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Premium ❘ Feature‘His bow was snapped in two as the window-curtains caught fire’ - From the archive
In the dim and distant past, The Strad would raid other periodicals for violin-related stories. Two examples follow.



























