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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2018-04-01 3:22 pm
It was amazing to see some ancient and significant documents kept and is now up for an auction with enormous value. Just like the letter of a 17th-century Violin Collector Count Cozio di Salabue (1755...
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2018-03-27 2:24 pm
Flying with musical instruments is now one of the musicians’ nightmares. Sara Avery a violinist based in Colorado sorrowfully posted a severely broken violin on Facebook. It was one of the many ...
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2018-03-27 1:47 pm
Kaija Saariaho’s Graal theatre was performed with the new titanium bow frog by violinist Peter Herresthal. It was the first appearance of the titanium frog in public. Luthier Christophe Landon and V...
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2018-01-07 10:04 pm
The perfect recipe for the varnish in violin is a long time quest of luthiers in parts of the world. Somehow they have overlooked the importance of wood preparation which should be their utmost priori...
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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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2018-01-03 11:01 am
The two historical poets, who happen to be friends with each other, now have two violins to remember them in their significant contributions to the history of humankind.
Just like Wilfred Owen, his go...
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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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2017-12-29 9:35 am
A violin student of the Royal Academy of Music in London thought she had spared her violin from aircraft luggage trouble. Understanding the risk of taking a 17-seater plane, she decides to leave her p...
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2017-12-21 9:56 pm
You probably might have heard about Wuilly Arteaga, a protest violinist and was once a student of El Sistema. He became known around the world due to a social media post about his broken violin cause...
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2017-12-16 3:32 pm
What a painful sight when a Norwegian born violin maker and player Daniel Olsen got back home after he got home from a business trip. Broken carcasses of violins and other instruments are scattered al...
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