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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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baroque music, double-bass strings, early music, gut strings, gut strings history, gut strings maintenance, gut strings manufacture, viol strings, viola da gamba strings, viola strings, violin strings, violoncello strings
The “fresh gut” part Let’s get started, and of course we start from Salle, in Abruzzi (Italy). We’ll go and see how a factory was organized in the 18th century. Yes, I said factory, not workshop. When you take out the intestine from a sheep, the first thing you need to do is to empty it someway.
Read MoreThomastick-Infeld in strings history. Two of the greatest innovations of the 20th century come from Thomastick-Infeld, a company based in Wien: in 1914 they patented a machine to use the flat wire for the winding of a string, before of that the winding wire was always round, sometimes polished by hand after the winding process just before
Read MoreProcession for the translation of the body of beatus Roberto da Salle, its 200th anniversary ( July 2007) Who is following me since the beginning of my Facebook page already saw this several times I’m afraid, sorry… But I simply love this video. I love this music, the mysterious beginning, the explosion of joy, this big
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