Howard kindly offered to post this message (below) on my behalf - but
I see that if I'd like to be involved it's a bit much to ask others to
post for me! So I've signed up to the list. As an outsider from the
bowed-string community I shan't get involved too heavily, but did very
muc
In a message dated 02/04/2010 07:15:21 GMT Daylight Time,
vidan...@sbcglobal.net writes:
I can't see any evidence for wound strings on the violin for the
early baroque, but if there is, I would be interested to see it.
I should have been more specific about dates: the earliest
In a message dated 02/04/2010 19:32:58 GMT Daylight Time,
vidan...@sbcglobal.net writes:
Best I can do is perhaps ask some of my friends in Sweden, or
perhaps you know some of the string players in the Baroque orchestra
there.
Come to think of it I do know a Swedish baroqu
With apologies to regulars - now I see my post I understand why pasting
in comments does not work very well.
Sorry for the lack of clarity - I won't do it again!
Oliver
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[1]Click here:
http://www.nationalmuseum.se/Global/Pressbilder/RubensvanDyck/Hoegupplo
est%20jpg/0410.jpg
My Swedish friend and colleague Hannah Tibell, whose husband is
lutenist Richard Sweeney, has managed to track down the details of this
painting; this is what she said:
[1]Click here: Web Gallery of Art - Image Viewer
Actually this is not the one I had in mind - the other one shows the
cello strings more clearly and the C string is substantially thicker
than the G. But this is quite nice too, and includes an all gut violin.
Oliver
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I'd been meaning to ask: you mentioned in an earlier post that amongst
others, Tartini, Stradivarius and L Mozart used all gut stringing on
their violins. I was curious to know where this information comes from,
as I haven't come across anything conclusive from any of them. Could
you
Just taken an easter break in Italy - now stuck in Nice and hoping to
drive to a ferry port over the next couple of days in an attempt to get
back to London...
As long as I can get home to pick up my fiddle before next De Swaen
project in Amsterdam (they!re very fussy about stringing...) I'll be
