Tone
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BlogsWhy you should stop and think before you play
Violinist and Suzuki pedagogue Helen Brunner advocates for a thoughtful, step-by-step approach to practice
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Focus7 tips on adjustments to get the best out of your instrument
The finest Stradivari in the world will sound poor if it is badly set up. Here are some points to consider sourced from our archive
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Focus10 views on dynamics for bowed strings
Advice on how to produce effective dynamic contrasts from The Strad archives
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Blogs4 sound qualities for producing a beautiful tone
Violin professor at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire and Junior Guildhall Ivo Stankov offers advice for creating your best sound
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FocusThe Strad Podcast Episode #56: Richard Markson on teaching tone and sound
‘You have to hear in your mind a sound that you want to make’
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Premium ❘ FeatureTechnique: Cello warm-ups - the bow arm
Cellist Mats Lidström discusses how to prepare the whole body for efficient, time-saving repertoire practice
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BlogsAaron Rosand on how to produce a beautiful tone
The American violinist examines the role of the bow in tone production. From 2013
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Focus7 ways to improve your tone
The elusive and deeply personal subject of tone production is pondered in the following quotes taken from the pages of The Strad over the past 130 years
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Premium ❘ Feature‘Free and ringing, never forced’ - Technique: Developing bow control for improved tone
Violist Martin Outram on mix of exercises to help you draw out sound actively and attentively with the right hand
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Focus8 ways to develop musical expression and individuality
Views on cultivating personal style and engaging your audience from 130 years of The Strad
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Premium ❘ FeatureTechnique: Creating sound from the imagination
Iagoba Fanlo, professor of cello at the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Aragón and Alfonso X El Sabio University in Spain, on daily practice tools to help you realise your inner musical vision on your instrument
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Premium ❘ Feature‘We should always listen carefully to the quality of our tone’ - Technique: Working on open strings
Cellist Denis Severin provides exercises to help you build up a strong, reliable right hand, with a consistently beautiful sound
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BlogsViolinist Julia Fischer and cellist Daniel Müller-Schott on sound projection
The soloists talk to Pauline Harding about orchestral accompaniment and soloistic sound
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Focus10 tips on maximising tone quality & projection
Advice on projecting your best sound from over 130 years of The Strad's archives
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FocusHow to produce a strong, uninhibited sound without pressure, by cellist Joel Krosnick
The former Juilliard Quartet cellist explained to Laurinel Owen how to effectively transmit energy from your body to the instrument in 2005
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FocusSinging during practice can help improve sound and characterisation
Cellist Laurence Lesser suggests that learning to listen to your voice constructively isn't easy, but it helps to set musical feeling directly into motion
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Focus‘I can see good tone’ - Suzuki’s tonalisation exercises
With musical examples, Helen Brunner examines how Suzuki’s tonalisation exercises are used to create a beautiful sound on the violin. From the September 2021 issue
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FocusHow can violinists create a personal sound?
Once upon a time, violinists just wanted to get as close to Heifetz's sound as they possibly could. But now that golden standard no longer applies, Jessica Duchen asks, how do the stars of today mark themselves out as special?
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FocusHow to improve your sound by practising on open strings
Cello professor at the Geneva–Neuchâtel University of Music, Bern University of the Arts, and Zakhar Bron School of Music in Zurich, Denis Severin shares exercises on open strings to enhance tone and fluidity of sound
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FocusHow to play cantabile on the cello
Ahead of her new album release, the French-Swiss cellist Ophélie Gaillard explains how she simulates the vocal expressiveness of a melodic line on the cello
