All Regulars articles – Page 58
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Premium ❘ FeatureTrade Secrets: Making and using a simple collar for self-centring
A useful tool for bow makers, enabling octagonal sections to be accurately centred in a three-jaw lathe chuck
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Premium ❘ FeatureMaking Matters: Thinking outside the soundbox
What effect do elements such as the bass-bar and neck heel have on an instrument’s sound quality? Jan Špidlen made an experimental violin, with a number of adjustable features, to find out
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Premium ❘ FeatureMasterclass: Rosalind Ventris on Vieuxtemps Viola Sonata op.36
The British violist details the virtues of this underappreciated B flat major Sonata, with all of its structural surprises and ‘Jekyll and Hyde’ twists and turns
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Premium ❘ FeatureTechnique: ‘Speedrunning’
How to use a competitive video gaming approach to plan out your practice, maximise your technical efficiency and play consistently accurately on stage
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Premium ❘ FeatureFrom the Archive: September 1930
The pseudonymous cellist and columnist ‘Ike’ observes how classical music lovers are becoming more plentiful, thanks to the wireless – even if they won’t recognise it themselves
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FocusAlexander Sitkovetsky: Life Lessons
The Russian–British violinist on moving between artistic cultures and the future of collaborative music making
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FeatureSentimental Work: Vadim Repin
Despite a shaky beginning, Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto no.2 has become one of the most beloved pieces in the Russian violinist’s repertoire
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DebateOpinion: From the Heart
In the Covid-19 crisis, musicians have begun to film their playing from home. Andrew Mellor asks whether these raw and sometimes less-than-pristine performances have killed off classical music’s ‘cult of perfection’
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Premium ❘ ArticleAugust 2020: Welcome
The Strad’s editor Charlotte Smith introduces the August 2020 issue
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Premium ❘ ArticleSoundpost: Letters to the Editor August 2020
A selection of letters The Strad receives each month from its readers around the world: August 2020 issue
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Premium ❘ NewsAnalysis August 2020: Preparing for a brave new world
Conservatoires around the world are preparing for seismic changes in their teaching provision when the autumn term starts in September – and the problem of one-to-one tuition is just the tip of the iceberg
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ArticleProducts August 2020: Face mask
The coronavirus pandemic has put something of a dampener on the celebrations planned worldwide to mark 250 years since the birth of Ludwig van Beethoven. While it won’t quite live up to the thrill of listening to (or playing in) a live performance of his music, this ...
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ArticleProducts August 2020: Glue pot
This 1fl oz pot for heat-sensitive hide glue is a replica of an 1870s model by Landers, Frary & Clark. It retains the decorative sunburst design of the original, but is made from stainless steel instead of cast iron. According to the manufacturer, water between the layers ...
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ArticleProducts August 2020: Pirastro Perpetual cello strings
New warm and weighty choices for cellists
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Premium ❘ FeatureTrade Secrets: Small tools, big help
A number of labour-saving devices designed to make life easier at the workbench
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Premium ❘ FeatureMaking Matters: Beauty and the bridge
The acoustic role of the violin bridge is well known, but what about the aesthetic choices that luthiers make when carving them? John Beames gives a detailed analysis of a favourite bridge to elucidate the process
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Premium ❘ FeatureMasterclass: Tai Murray on Beethoven’s ‘Triple’ Concerto Part 2
Violinist Tai Murray discusses balance and colour in the first movement of the op.56 work for violin, cello, piano and orchestra, in the second of two articles
