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Meet “Ferret” from Fiddlerman’s “Fiddle Talk” forum 3 Aug 2013 | 07:36 am
My name is John Luck (Ferret) and I live in Byron Bay, New South Wales, Australia. I was born in Sydney, New South Wales, in 1950. My family and I moved to Byron Bay around 30 years ago and am now age...
NewsBeat: Bedford’s newest Stradivarius: A one-of-a-kind pool 3 Aug 2013 | 04:31 am
From the Journal News, Westchester, NY (www.lohud.com): A violin shaped pool in Bedford, NY Former finance executive Jay Dweck already owns some rare violins — a Guarneri and a Stradivarius — and he...
NewsBeat: Missing Stradivarius Violin Found 31 Jul 2013 | 05:53 am
From PRI’s The World: British police say they believe they have recovered a $1.84 million Stradivarius violin that was taken from acclaimed Korean musician Min-Jin Kym more than two years ago when sh...
NewsBeat: 16th century double bass comes with subwoofer vibes 11 Jul 2013 | 07:14 am
From The Age: A rare double bass, crafted from spruce and pear wood in the 16th century, but with a ”subwoofer-like quality”, is the latest addition to the Australian Chamber Orchestra’s line-up of h...
NewsBeat: Want to hear the world’s most expensive violin? 29 Jun 2013 | 04:40 am
From artsjournal.com: It’s the Vieuxtemps Guarnerius, on the market for $20 million. We don’t think it fetched quite that much, but it has been given on loan to Anne-Akiko Meyers and she’s making the...
NewsBeat: Playing Mozart — On Mozart’s Violin 17 Jun 2013 | 06:01 am
From NPR: The violin and viola that Mozart played himself are in the United States for the first time ever. The instruments come out of storage only about once a year at the Salzburg Mozarteum in Aust...
NewsBeat: Philadephia Orchestra members surprise airplane passengers with impromptu concert 9 Jun 2013 | 06:09 am
From the New York Daily News: This was one captive audience. When four members of the Philadelphia Orchestra found themselves stuck on board a delayed flight for nearly three hours, they decided to ge...
NewsBeat: Treatment With Fungi Makes a Modern Violin Sound Like a Stradivarius 30 May 2013 | 06:04 am
From Science Daily A good violin depends not only on the expertise of the violin maker, but also on the quality of the wood that is used. The Swiss wood researcher Professor Francis W. M. R. Schwarze ...
Catskill Cultural Center Saved, and Renewed, Thanks to a Fiddler’s Tune 14 May 2013 | 06:12 am
From the New York Times: OLIVEBRIDGE, N.Y. — On a spring Sunday in the Catskill Mountains, Jay Ungar, a fiddler wearing a black vest and hiking boots, and his wife, Molly Mason, playing guitar, stood ...
NewsBeat: Paganini to Prince: Daniel Bernard Roumain makes violin cool 1 May 2013 | 05:43 am
From the Kansas City Star: No delusions here. Daniel Bernard Roumain knows what most kids think about the violin. “Not very cool, not very cool at all,” he said once to a group of high school musician...
