All Regulars articles – Page 51
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FeatureAccessories 2021: Covid-19 Safety for Orchestras – Playing Safe
Orchestras are among the musical ensembles to have suffered most during the pandemic. Pauline Harding finds out how some have been adapting their outlooks, products and processes in this new era of germ evasion and online streaming
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FeatureAccessories 2021: Low-latency Performance Technology – Adventures in Time and Space
The internet has been a lifeline for musicians in the pandemic, but latency – the delay as sound data is processed and transmitted – is a killer for those wanting to perform together in real time. Tom Stewart finds out how teaching institutions are fighting back with technology that can ...
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FeatureAccessories 2021: Teaching Online – Amplified Learning
Coronavirus has upended the lives and livelihoods of musicians around the globe – and one consequence has been the rapid growth of online instrumental teaching. Charlotte Smith looks at ways in which dedicated technology can enhance the experience without breaking the bank
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FeatureAccessories 2021: Case Innovations – Structural Revolution
In a quest to make instrument cases stronger, lighter and more sustainable, manufacturers are finding new ways of working with polycarbonate, Kevlar, recycled carbon fibre and even linen, writes Harry White
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FeatureAccessories 2021: Packaging and Shipping a Violin
A method for sending instruments long distances, giving the smallest possibility of damage to the package’s contents
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FeatureAccessories 2021: Tailpieces and Chin Rests – Sound Unlimited
Makers of chin rests and tailpieces have adopted new and exciting materials in recent years, with interesting implications not only for weight and strength, but also for the instrument’s tonal capabilities. Peter Somerford investigates
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DebateOpinion: On the margins
Conservatoires should do more to make 17th-century music a fundamental part of the curriculum, writes Walter Reiter
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FocusHenning Kraggerud: Life Lessons
The Norwegian violinist and composer explores the importance of finding a work’s inner meaning when creating one’s musical voice
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Premium ❘ ArticleMay 2021: Welcome
The Strad’s editor Charlotte Smith introduces the May 2021 issue
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Premium ❘ ArticleSoundpost: Letters to the Editor May 2021
A selection of letters The Strad receives each month from its readers around the world: May 2021 issue
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Premium ❘ NewsAnalysis May 2021: Seeing the wood for the trees
A new campaign is under way to save Brazil’s endangered pernambuco tree, the wood most favoured by bow makers. The goal is clear, but the devil is in the detail. By Anthony Fort
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Premium ❘ NewsCompetitions, Awards and Appointments: May 2021
This month’s competition results, appointments and forthcoming contests
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Premium ❘ FeatureTrade Secrets: Gluing the linings with counterforms and springs
An efficient method for a complex process, which allows freedom of movement
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Premium ❘ FeatureMaking Matters: A cautionary tale for our times
When a cello suffered a calamitous hand sanitiser accident, it looked irreparable at first sight. John Simmers explains how he restored it to the way it was pre-Covid
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Premium ❘ FeatureMasterclass: Alisa Weilerstein on Chopin’s Cello Sonata in G minor op.65
The American cellist explores how to bring out all the romantic charm of the first movement using fingerings and bowings, without over-reliance on vibrato, rubato or a sticky, sickly sound
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Premium ❘ FeatureTechnique: Early music articulation for modern instrumentalists
How to use Baroque bow techniques to build variety, lightness and flow into every phrase
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Premium ❘ FeatureFrom the Archive: May 1901
A reader takes issue with luthier and prolific contributor Arthur Broadley, and his views on the work of northern maker Walter H. Mayson which he made known in the previous edition
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