Pirastro 1929 price list
Price lists and catalogues are great sources of information: read with me this price list from 1929 by Pirastro and see what we find there!
Read MoreSorry, this video is only in Italian, it would be too time consuming to translate it world by world.
I just discovered this video from Takumi’s blog, which I recommend to you all, liuteriatakumi.
I love it because most of these men and women I had the occasion to interview them personally in 2007, and the ones I didn’t are confirming what I knew. I was so happy to see them still healthy after 10 years, they are more than 80 years old now.
I hope you can enjoy this and the Italian atmosphere coming from it despite the language!
By the way, I collected all the interviews that Mimmo Peruffo and I made in Salle in a book which is for sale on Amazon, check it out:
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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
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