All Regulars articles – Page 64
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Premium ❘ NewsCompetitions, Awards and Appointments: January 2020
This month’s competition results, appointments and forthcoming contests
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Premium ❘ NewsAuction Report: January 2020
Old Italians and a modern bow proved popular at this autumn’s auctions, as Kevin MacDonald reports
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ArticleNew Products: January 2020
Leatherwood Bespoke Rosin double bass rosin; Optima Gut Klang violin strings set; International Violoin flexible LED strip
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Premium ❘ FeatureTrade Secrets: a peninsular bench extension
Ideas for a workplace addition that is completely accessible from all three of its sides
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Premium ❘ FeatureMaking Matters: the DNA of design
David Beard argues that the old Cremonese makers had a geometric system of design ‘recipes’ to create the vast number of different instrument patterns we see today
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Premium ❘ FeatureTechnique: Sound and phrase
The importance of developing a refined, balanced technique to communicate a nuanced musical line on the double bass
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Premium ❘ FeatureFrom the Archive: January 1900
An unsolved mystery from 1869: T.L. Phipson relates how a c.1709 Stradivari violin vanished without trace – and as far as we know, remains missing to this day
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ArticleSoundpost: Letters to the Editor January 2020
A selection of letters The Strad receives each month from its readers around the world: January 2020 issue
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ArticleOpinion: Managing a good ending
When a child wants to stop instrumental lessons, teachers have a duty to bring matters to a positive close, argues violin teacher Celia Cobb
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FeatureSentimental Work: Linus Roth
Weinberg’s Violin Concerto is a work of passionate intensity, as the German violinist found – even though he hadn’t encountered the composer until eight years ago
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Premium ❘ FeatureFrom the Archive: December 1909
The pseudonymous ‘L.H.W.’ gives his thoughts on teaching, in an article he might himself call ‘profuse and extravagant in expression’
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Premium ❘ FeatureTechnique: Teaching rhythm and bowing to beginners
How to inspire very young musicians to learn new cello playing skills
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Premium ❘ FeatureMaking Matters: a phoenix from the ashes
Luthier Shlomo Moyal explains how he restored a 1685 viola da gamba that had been almost destroyed, in a project that took a whole year of patient reconstruction
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Premium ❘ FeatureTrade Secrets: Flattening planes
A sadly necessary task for all luthiers, which should have been taken care of by the manufacturer in the first place
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ArticleNew Products: December 2019
Stradpet titanium tailpiece; Cello Gard foldable cello stand; Musafia case caddy
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ArticleSoundpost: Letters to the Editor
A selection of letters The Strad receives each month from its readers around the world: December 2019 issue
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December 2019: Welcome
The Strad’s editor Charlotte Smith introduces the December 2019 issue
