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Thank you Michael Burnham for this great present!!
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…the idea came to a cello player… Sometimes, you wander around the web and you find little gems which only apparently have little to do with what you were looking for. …but at a closer look… at 0’30 there are some historical pictures: note the dimensions of the factory and the name: Maillot is the actual
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 MoreIf 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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