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Premium ❘ ArticleAuction Report: January 2021
Despite the problems of Covid-19, the October sales went ahead as planned in London. Kevin MacDonald reviews some of the highlights
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ArticleProducts January 2021: Instrument photography
The big reveal - a celebration of a celebrated violin
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Premium ❘ FeatureTrade Secrets: Making a partial plaster cast
A useful restoration method that can be used when a full cast is unnecessary
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Premium ❘ FeatureMaking Matters: Making fingerboards green
With speculation rife that ebony might soon be added to the CITES index of forbidden woods, Alan Beavitt shares his method for creating a fingerboard using veneers rather than full blocks of the wood
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Premium ❘ FeatureMasterclass: Alban Gerhardt on Saint-Saëns Cello Concerto no.1, part 2
Alban Gerhardt explains why it takes courage to fight tradition and forge your own interpretation – based not on what others play but on what the composer wrote – in the work’s third movement
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Premium ❘ FeatureTechnique: Ricochet
How to produce clear and controlled bounced bowings on the violin
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Premium ❘ FeatureFrom the Archive: January 1911
The weights of a Stradivari violin’s plates are revealed for the first time, although modern readers will likely be left none the wiser
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FocusInnovative solutions: Postcard from Cremona
Cremona’s Mondomusica trade fair, held annually in the Italian city, was unable to go ahead as planned this year due to coronavirus. Charlotte Smith attended the alternative Special Edition, and witnessed a host of creative ways to deal with the pandemic
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FeatureSentimental Work: Ray Chen
The Preludio and Gavotte en Rondeau from Bach’s Violin Partita no.3 were the violinist’s key to the Sonatas and Partitas – and provide meaning in the depths of the Covid-19 pandemic
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DebateOpinion: Being conscious
Developing musical potential requires a real sense of critical awareness as students grow, writes cellist Cecilia Radic
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FocusNobuko Imai: Life Lessons
An encounter with her instrument’s human qualities was a turning point for the Japanese violist, who looks back over a long career
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Premium ❘ ArticleDecember 2020: Welcome
The Strad’s editor Charlotte Smith introduces the December 2020 issue
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Premium ❘ ArticleSoundpost: Letters to the Editor December 2020
A selection of letters The Strad receives each month from its readers around the world: December 2020 issue
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Premium ❘ NewsAnalysis December 2020: Competing with coronavirus
Most of 2020’s international string competitions were postponed – but with no easy resolution to Covid-19 in sight, how are events planned for 2021 dealing with the uncertainty? By Peter Somerford
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