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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!
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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
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