The Best Way to Avoid Damaging Your Violin in the Baggage Hold
2018-04-01 4:05 pm
We may have heard lots of news about violins and other musical instruments which did not survive inside aircrafts’ baggage hold. Many musicians had experienced and seen the horrible fate of their in...
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2018-01-06 12:42 pm
International Violin Making Competition Jury and luthier Patrick Robin reveal how he evaluates the instruments in the recent competition in Prague.
Robin stated that the first thing that would come to...
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2018-01-06 11:24 am
Swedish violinist Christian Svarfvar thought he could escape from the terror of endangering his Stradivari by taking a train; he never thought that this would happen to him. He was supposed to take a ...
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2018-01-01 12:01 am
To commemorate the 1914 outbreak of the First World War, Steve Burnet a luthier from Edinburgh created a violin named after Wilfred Owen. Wilfred Owen was famous for his poetry during wartime. He went...
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2017-12-30 3:26 am
Rachel Roberts, a viola soloist who made several international tours posted a call for musicians saying. “Support the arts, don’t fly with British Airways!” this was included in her 1,000-word p...
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2017-12-28 3:58 am
To find the best cellists that we ever had in our history is quite challenging. There should be a significant consideration regarding the ever-changing taste and preferences of people as the changes o...
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2017-10-29 9:24 am
The viola instrument is larger than the violin. However, some only considered it as an instrument that would just fill the middle part of the harmony and not for a solo performance. Even the great com...
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2017-10-20 2:59 am
When it comes to selecting the best violin players in the past, we need to draw a line between personal taste and expert evaluation of the violinist’s skill and achievements as well as their contrib...
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2017-10-18 4:29 pm
Before we talk about the great women in the world of the symphony orchestra, we must first understand that before the 20th century, a symphony orchestra is an all-male group. It was according to tradi...
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2017-10-11 12:50 pm
We may have seen talented blind musicians who had been great performers but to see an all women orchestra composed of blind performers is another thing. The Al Nour Wal Amal (Light and Hope) is an Egy...
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2017-06-25 11:09 pm
Air Canada receives The International Federation of Musicians (FIM) airline of choice award this 2017. A body of more than 60 different countries launched the award representing musicians along with t...
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2017-06-25 6:56 am
It seems impossible to think that a group of 1600 matchsticks can create a full-size playable violin but its real and it’s making sounds like the standard violin. The truth is, the matchstick violin...
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