Rob Landes plays the same song on a series of increasingly more expensive violins, and you will be shocked at how subtle the difference is in sound quality. What: A fascinating video that demonstrates ...
Violin makers routinely finish their instruments with a thick coat of varnish, the better to protect and preserve the wood. Now Swiss scientists claim that this varnish also plays a role in the ...
Leonardo da Vinci's oil painting "Mona Lisa" looks rather gloomy with its dark green and brown colours. It is a little-known fact that the maestro painted the picture in bright colours - so the ...
Musicians and music aficionados alike have long savored the rich sound quality of the violins created by Antonio Stradivari, particularly at the dawn of the 18th century (the so-called “golden period“ ...
How a violin’s f-holes are shaped can influence the instrument’s lowest notes. MIT scientists, along with a Boston-based violin maker, analyzed how air moves through a violin’s f-shaped holes and ...
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Watch Out for the Biggest Trap in Audio!
Hey there, I’m Lachlan! If you love great sound, you're in the right place. With a background in music, tech, and a degree in hearing and speech, I break down the world of audio gear in a way that's ...
The musical world praises Stradivarius in much the same way the art community does Picasso or entrepreneurs do Gates. For three centuries, violinmakers have worked, without success, to uncover the ...
From Tchaikovsky to The Temptations, from Imagine Dragons to Johann Sebastian Bach, music masters Wil Baptiste and Kev Marcus collaborate to bring audiences a rare glimpse of an evening of unusual, ...
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I Sent My Violin To Space, Then Played It
What happens when you send a violin to the edge of space? How will it sound when it lands? BUY A VIOLIN Thank you to John ...
What began as a hobby -- and a way to provide inexpensive learning opportunities for his children -- would grow over the years into an obsessive pursuit for the perfect sound, bringing international ...
This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract We present a method to recuperate fingerings for a given piece of violin music in order to recreate the timbre of a given audio recording of ...
Commentary: ‘The Menuhin Century’ is now: Why the violin master is still the sound of hope and peace
At 18 and 19, Menuhin was the first to record Bach’s complete solo violin sonatas and partitas, not then well known. He made them the center of the solo violin repertory, the example of everything a ...
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