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In this video, the micro-artist Mattewada Ajay Kumar, who hails from Warangal, a city in the south Indian state of Telangana, plays his micro-violin: a tiny functional violin, weighing 0.74 mg and all of 2 cm long, sculpted from gold. The instrument, which comes complete with four metal strings and a bow, took Kumar 11 hours to make - a process which required him to hold his breath at times in order to complete the finest details.
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Oesi and pianist Andrea Vasi perform Bottesini’s Allegro Di Concerto ’Alla Mendelssohn,’ which was released as a single last week
A violinist and violist from the quartet played an arrangement of a Verdi aria for the passengers
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