OT: Interesting read on Stradavaris (the actual instrument)

[Arya]

Thought this might be interesting for people to read. Always nice to know a bit more about the unique instruments we mockup :)

http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/the-magic-of-stradivarius-now-theories-come-out-of-the-woodwork/2006/03/11/1141701737161.html

Enjoy

-Arya

[piano]

One of the violinists I know and use fo my recordings has a Strad on loan to her.

She takes it everywhere with her --- even to the bathroom.

She let me hold it once --- what a thrill!!!

[Seq]

Arya, thank you for posting that link.

piano... you are SO lucky!

I just picked up Stradivari's Genius by Toby Faber. It looked interesting and I thought it would be fun to read up a little on Stradivari and his instruments. We'll see how it pans out once I start reading it. But as I said... it looked interesting.

[Seq]

Stradivari's Genius by Toby Faber has proved to be a wonderful read. I highly recommend it to all Strad users and anyone interested in music in general. Not that you will learn any technique from it, etc. - just that it's nice to have a bit of the background history behind these legendary instruments.