Balkan maple is particularly prized for violin making, but it’s reputation ultimately relies on violin makers regarding it as a good and logical match for the wood that we find on Italian violins from the Cremonese Golden-Period. As far as I know, we don’t have documentary support for this idea, simply the experience and observations […]
In the last twenty years François Denis’ Traite de Lutherie has revolutionised the way that we...
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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...
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Touring around the 1987 Antonio Stradivari Exhibition in Cremona. It goes without saying that I was far...
