The Yale Collection of Musical Instruments recently acquired more than 20 stringed instruments and bows from the Andrew F. Petryn Collection. Here are five of the highlights: violins by Nicolò Amati, Matthias Klotz and Johann Klotz, an 18th-century English cello, and a c.1770 quinton by Nicolas Augustin Chappuy.
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Photos: Christopher Gardner/courtesy Yale School of Music
Expert and conservator Balthazar Soulier has curated this month’s poster which, for the first time, features an ‘original composite’ violin: the ‘Paderewski, Wendling’, made by Montagnana and Guarneri ‘del Gesù’. Here he places this unique instrument in context and highlights complementary information to enable a better understanding of the poster ...
Alberto Giordano examines a 20th-century violin by the Chiavari-based luthier
Kevin MacDonald finds a wealth of interesting lots at the October sales in London, from fine old Italians to a fiddle by a Cumbrian farmer
The first Stradivari violin to be given to the Canada Council’s Musical Instrument Bank, it remains in top-class condition
One of only eight cellos known to be made by the Turin-based luthier, it is named after Canadian cellist Christine Newland
David Rattray examines a firm link between the Aberdeen and London schools of lutherie in the 18th century
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