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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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Procession 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
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 More…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
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