Posts Tagged ‘Violins’

The bow finds the player at Mount Airy Violins & Bows
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By Erica David If you want to learn about violins and the bows that make them sing, you'll want to catch up with Elizabeth Vander Veer Shaak. Shaak is shop owner and bow maker at Mount Airy Violins & Bows on Germantown Avenue. …
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Audience Calendar
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Boston Conservatory Graduate Student Piano and Violin Recital, pianist Nicholas Place and violinist Nicole Parks, Saco River Grange Hall, Bar Mills, free. 650-2776. 2 pm today. Concert led by Robert Russell and Ray Cornils, Friends of the Kotzschmar …
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Narberth's Crosby, Stills and Crash
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The legendary sideman for Bob Dylan, Linda Ronstadt, Jerry Jeff Walker and others, Bromberg eventually tired of the performance scene and moved to Chicago, where he became a violin maker, Gold related. About 10 years ago, Bromberg moved back to …
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MSO: Extreme Violins at the Basilica
He peppered his music with hair-raising glissando shrieks and rhythms scratched out on the short bit of the strings between the bridge and the tailpiece. Setapen took the elation and despair in the music to crazy extremes, which is the whole point. …
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Bass manufacturer profile: Warwick
In 1946 Fred Wilfer (descendent of a long line of luthiers) founded Framus (Franconian Musical Instruments Manufacture) in Erlangen in Bavaria using the skill and expertise of the many Schoenbach violin makers displaced by the Second World War. …
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Chamber Music International Concert 1 presented by Chamber Music International …
… on baroque performance practices while playing on a modernly outfitted violin. The current steel and wound strings are a far cry from the mellow gut strings of Bach's day. Also, the different placement of the bridge back then, and longer tailpiece, …
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Vintage Violins Music Instruments – Set Of 2 Key Chains

Vintage Violins Music Instruments Key Chain is new, measuring 2.25w x 2.25h x 1/8d. Key Chain Tag has a glossy finish and comes with a hole for hardware. Our new key hanger makes an attractive decoration for any household, plus keeps keys organized and easy to find. Picture is printed on both sides of the key chain. Each includes snap-on key chain hardware.

List Price: $ 16.09

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A few nice violins images I found:

Francois Vaillaut Violin


Image by Suzba
www.musicforstrings.com/dictionary_of_violin_makers.html

Edward Tarr, Jeffrey Segal & Niklas Eklund – Sonata in D Major for Trumpet, Two Violins and Continuo: Allegro

from The Art of the Baroque Trumpet, Vol. 5: An Italian Concert

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Radek Baborak, Wenzel Fuchs, Dalibor Karvay, Vladimír Klánský, Aida Shabuova & Jiri Zigmund – Serenade for Clarinet, French Horn, Three Violins and Viola No. 1 in A Minor, H. 217: I. Allegro Moderato

from Martinu, Nielsen & Koechlin: Serenade

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Some recent pop violin music auctions on eBay:

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London Philharmonic Orchestra, Pieter Schoeman, Vesselin Gellev & David Parry – Double Concerto in D Minor for Two Violins, BWV 1043: Vivace

from Bach for Beginners

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Yehudi Menuhin, Camerata Lysy Gstaad, Hu Kun, Mi-Kyung Lee, Eduardo Vasallo & Alberto Lysy – L’estro armonico, Op. 3 – Concerto No. 11 in D Minor for 2 Violins, Cello and Strings, RV 565: I. Allegro – Adagio e spiccato – Allegro

from Vivaldi for Beginners

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Berliner Philharmoniker & Nigel Kennedy – Concerto For Two Violins in D Minor, BWV 1043: I. Vivace

from Kennedy Plays Bach

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