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NEWS A very British tradition – to end
Newark School of Violin Making has turned out some of the world’s finest luthiers, as well as generations of the UK’s important instrument repairers…
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End of an era
The death of renowned violin expert Charles Beare raises questions about how we can know what we know about instruments in the age of data
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A hundred days on
On 1 January, I committed to the #100daysofpractice challenge – so what happened next?
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Charlie Chaplin and his violin obsession
ARCHIVE The great screen comedian was an accomplished amateur violinist who composed many of his own film scores, which are finally getting the…
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Loving Kreisler
LIBRARY NOTES On the 150th birthday of the legendary violinist Fritz Kreisler, I delve into the archives for some first-person memories of my very…
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Happy birthday, Sir Simon
ARCHIVE On Simon Rattle’s 70th birthday, I look back on five magical days I spent in Berlin in 2018, being conducted by the man himself, as part of a…
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#100daysofpractice
I’m taking up Hilary Hahn’s challenge of practising the violin every day for the next 100 days – for the second time. Who’s in?
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