Quality of strings from a painting
What shall we look in paintings Pictures from an exhibition in Venaria Reale, Torino (Italy), of restaured masterpieces from Renaissance. I loved that “soft” string…
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If you were to play in the Conzertgebow Orchestra in the 60s, which strings were you using?
Some news on the strings used in Amsterdam in the 70s... (and we are not speaking of early music...)
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What shall we look in paintings Pictures from an exhibition in Venaria Reale, Torino (Italy), of restaured masterpieces from Renaissance. I loved that “soft” string…
Read MoreThe oldest certified violin String in the World…from Freiberger Dome. It was far 2005 when Mimmo Peruffo received a call to go to Leipzig Museum and of course, I took the occasion to follow him: there they had found a string certified from 1594, the lower of a three strings piccolo violin… Let’s make a step
Read MoreFrom the famous BBC serie …the string maker is at minute 39′, the hands of the string maker belogs to Mr. George Stoppani
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