All Regulars articles – Page 5
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Premium ❘ FeatureTechnique: Exploring pizzicato techniques
Violinist Tomás Cotik on the broad range of pizzicato techniques available to string players
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Premium ❘ FeatureIn Focus: An 1895 double bass by Vincenzo Postiglione
Luigi Sisto examines the late 19th-century instrument
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Premium ❘ FocusOpinion: How to navigate competitions
Lucie Robert, violinist and professor at the Manhattan School of Music, offers sage advice to young string players planning to step on to the competition path
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Premium ❘ FeatureTrade Secrets: Custom crack-levelling clamps made with 3D printing
A new way to glue cracks without the aid of a mould
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Premium ❘ Focus‘A musician cannot exist without an audience’ - Nemanja Radulović’s life lessons
The Serbian–French violinist on going deeper into the music and remaining true to yourself
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Premium ❘ ArticleAnalysis October 2025: Resources for disabled, D/deaf and neurodivergent musicians
With the UK’s Paraorchestra winning Ensemble of the Year at the 2025 RPS Awards, what resources are there for musicians who identify as disabled, D/deaf or neurodivergent?
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Premium ❘ FocusPostcard from Japan: Sendai International Music Competition
Rita Fernandes encountered exceptional performances but unexpected results at the ninth Sendai International Music Competition
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Premium ❘ ArticleProducts October 2025: For-Tune Strings Charm X violin strings
New strings extend the original range’s characteristics
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Premium ❘ ArticleProducts October 2025: Forte3D cello with painted top
The carbon fibre cello is now available with alternative designs
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Premium ❘ FeatureMy Space: Wiebke Lüders’ Voss workshop
Take a look at the maker’s Norwegian workshop
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Premium ❘ FeatureTrade Secrets: Fitting a marquetry inlay
A guide to adding a unique, personalised touch to an instrument front or back
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Premium ❘ Focus‘All musical styles are innately interconnected’ - Aleksey Igudesman’s life lessons
The Vienna-based violinist on his formative influences and the importance of venturing outside the norm
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Premium ❘ Feature‘He found himself surrounded by a mob’ - From the Archive: September 1895
The violinist William Wolff recalls some anecdotes about his old friend, the great violinist and composer Louis Spohr (1784–1859)
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Premium ❘ FeatureTechnique: effective practice technique
Advice on how to develop your own method of practice, for violinists and violists
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Premium ❘ ArticleProducts October 2025: divi:de travel bow
A new bow that can be disassembled to make travel simpler
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Premium ❘ FeatureMasterclass: Ysaÿe’s Rêve d’enfant op.14 for violin and piano
Violinist Nancy Zhou demonstrates the breadth of Ysaÿe’s expressive devices in an intimate piece dedicated to his son
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Premium ❘ ArticleAnalysis September 2025: The plight of music shops
The rise in online shopping has hit bricks-and-mortar retailers hard. What can instrument and sheet music shops do to entice customers back into the city centre? By Peter Somerford
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Premium ❘ FocusOpinion: The dangers of perfectionism
In striving to become the best player or educator you can be, it’s important not to fall into the trap of unhelpful perfectionism, say violinists and teachers Claire Allen and Christine Goodner
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Premium ❘ FocusSentimental Work: Thomas Demenga on Haydn’s Cello Concerto no.2 in D major
For the Swiss cellist, studying the original score of Haydn’s Cello Concerto no.2 in D major was the key to understanding the composer’s intentions
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Premium ❘ FeatureIn Focus: A 1705 violin by Giovanni Battista Rogeri
Julian Hersh examines an instrument made only a few years before the Brescian maker’s death
