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Pirastro in strings history.
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A family-run company which was always a leader in innovation without giving up tradition. Chapeau!
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Sorry, 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
Read MoreAn autobiographical letter from Astro Di Russo – part 2 Due to the strong emigration, in 1960 I was forced to leave my village to settle in Naples. In Acerra, a nearby town with about 50,000 inhabitants, I started the production with 140 employees and later, in the 70s, I also opened a manufactury in
Read MorePeriod gut strings versus modern gut strings. Which is the difference? What do I mean exactly when I speak about modern gut?Period wind instruments have very different tones for each note, due to construction limits, resulting in the very different sound of every key. Today Cmajor can sound exactly like B major, or Ebemoll major, in
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