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…
Read MorePaganini asked for thin “e” strings... and got 70-72!
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Carl Flesch on strings
Carl Flesch witnesses an age of profound changes in string settings. Actually, he wrote right at the time of the first notable changes since the renaissance… Carl Flesch in 1920 was praising the long life of the new steel “e” strings: even more than one week! So comfortable and relaxing for a pro… Watch this video till
Read MoreAstro Di Russo – part 1
An autobiographical letter from Astro Di Russo, cordaio in Napoli – part 1 It was in October 2006, that I found myself sitting in a living room in Naples, thinking I was there just to take notes during a technical interview on string making… instead, that was the beginning of my research. The old man sitting
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