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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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The 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 MoreThe big political changes occurred between the 19th and 20th century completely changed the physiognomy of string production. Between 19th and 20th century big changes occurred, so much that we can hardly recognize the musical string of the 20th cent as an evolution of the Italian gut string of the 18th century. First of all during
Read MoreWhat 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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