From the late medieval period and right the way through the Renaissance we see an abundance of images of Apollo and Orpheus playing the lyre, yet the evidence of a revival of lyre playing to support such images is remarkably absent. There are reasons why we should see so many images of this antique instrument, […]
Jacques Besson was born a protestant around 1540 in Grenoble. In 1559 he published an alchemical book about...
Balkan maple is particularly prized for violin making, but it’s reputation ultimately relies on...
In the last twenty years François Denis’ Traite de Lutherie has revolutionised the way that we...
A long read: We tend to fall into the idea of Andrea Amati and the invention of the violin as happening in...
At length, I hope to write more on my interest in the lyric and narrative poets of Cremona in the early...
The first thing that I would like to do is to wholeheartedly commend the brilliant work of Marie Radepone...
Almost every musician looking for a new instrument or bow has a different way of auditioning instruments...
Touring around the 1987 Antonio Stradivari Exhibition in Cremona. It goes without saying that I was far...
