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Basics: Scales – finger preparation
Cremona's Forgotten Curve
Ventral Pins, July 08
Ysaye’s Serenade sheet music
Masterclass: Mark Wood on rock violin Violinist Mark Wood offers some practical advise to ease classical players into rock technique. Download his exercises and Down Bow Hope here.
Case studies Dimitri Musafia examines the evidence we have about the original cases made to house Stradivari violins. Download your free copy of the early violin case pictures here. Images by Dimitri Musafia, courtesy Peter Biddulph.
The Strad Index 2007 Your complete index of The Strad features in 2007
Tap-tones The importance of tap-tones has largely been ignored in mainstream violin literature. Maker Joseph Curtin argues their case and shares his latest research from The Strad, October 2006
Pwyll ap Sion
Pwyll ap Sion puts a modern spin on an old Welsh folk song in The White Wheat, a piece he composed for the 2008 Yehudi Menuhin International Violin Competition Hill's pegs Eric Meyer pays tribute to the men behind the scenes at W.E. Hill and Sons From poster to mould John Dilworth offers advice on using The Strad posters to make instrument moulds Violin varnish Joe Robson looks into the history and chemistry of varnish James Ehnes
The simple virtuosity of Mozart's instrumental music is the inspiration behind James Ehnes's cadenzas to the master's violin concertos
Konstantin Mostras
Many of the elements of violin technique, including speed, agility and intonation, are put to the test in Mostras's fiendish study
Mark O'Connor
Mark O'Connor employs the creative and interpretative techniques of American traditional music in this challenging work
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