All Regulars articles – Page 6
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Premium ❘ FeatureTrade Secrets: Bow tip replacement – part one
Jenelle Steele explains a detailed method to remove an old tip and fit a new one, before shaping
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Premium ❘ FeatureMaking Matters: applying the ground coat to a violin
Making and applying the ground coat is a crucial stage of the varnishing process. James Ropp reveals his own method for a preparation containing no oil
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Premium ❘ FeatureTechnique: Violist Clifton Harrison on bowing arm movement
Clifton Harrison examines continuity and intention in the right arm
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Premium ❘ FocusOpinion: Mass discardment of cheap bows
Cellist Andrew Janss was shocked to discover the phenomenon of the cheap, single-use bow: one that costs more to rehair than replace. He calls for a change in manufacturers’ attitudes to such waste
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Premium ❘ FeatureMy Space: Daniela Gaidano’s Meltina workshop
The Italian luthier presents her forest-surrounded shop
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Premium ❘ FeatureMasterclass: Schubert Fantasy for violin and piano – part one
Violinist Alena Baeva stresses the importance of slow and attentive practice when embarking on the opening sections of this monumental work, in the first of a two-part article
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Premium ❘ FocusPostcard from Windsor: Windsor Festival International String Competition
Charlotte Gardner reports from the first in-person Windsor Festival International String Competition to take place since 2019, and discovers that the talented competitors still have everything to play for
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Premium ❘ ArticleAnalysis July 2024: The dangers of ticket reselling
With the music festival season already under way, how can venues and festival organisers help protect customers from the scourge of online secondary ticketing sites?
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Premium ❘ Feature‘An old country man playing on a fiddle’ - From the archive: July 1894
In ‘Fiddlers on Canvas’, The Strad surveys paintings at the London art exhibitions of interest to string players. The young lady ‘lost in reverie’ grows up to be Agatha Christie
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Premium ❘ ArticleJuly 2024: Editor’s welcome and contents
The Strad’s editor Emma Baker introduces the July 2024 issue
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Premium ❘ Article‘We musicians are so spoilt’ - Letters to the editor: July 2024
A selection of letters The Strad receives each month from its readers around the world: July 2024 issue
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Premium ❘ ArticleProducts July 2024: Bogaro & Clemente humidity control device
The device can both increase and decrease humidity in the instrument case
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Premium ❘ FeatureTrade Secrets: A workshop facility to measure violin family acoustics
Creating an apparatus for routine quick and easy measurements while making and setting up the violin and related instruments
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Premium ❘ FocusOpinion: Independence of the left-hand thumb
To free up left-hand technique, violinist and teacher Martin Goldman encourages players to think more carefully about their thumb as an independent entity, yet still in close partnership with the four fingers
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Premium ❘ FocusSentimental Work: Andrés Cárdenes on Chausson’s Poème
The Cuban-born violinist feels a rapport with the opulence of Chausson’s Poème – particularly with the revisions by its dedicatee, Eugène Ysaÿe
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Premium ❘ FeatureIn Focus: A 1927 violin by Evasio Emilio Guerra
Andrea Schudtz examines the Turin maker’s early 20th-century instrument
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Premium ❘ FeatureMaking Matters: Bridge position of the pochette instrument
One of the most unusual stringed instruments, the pochette can be found on show in many museum collections – but is it being displayed properly? Wim Raymaekers argues that the bridge position needs to be rethought
