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Articles in this issue
Below is a selection of articles in The Strad December 2020.
Editor’s letter
ANGELA LYONS
It’s no secret that Antonio Stradivari lived to a great age. But this biographical detail takes on new meaning when confronted with a still-vibrant instrument made in the maste...
Contributors
RACHAEL DURKIN (The viola d’amore, page 46) is a senior lecturer in music at Northumbria University, UK. Her research interests focus on the history of musical instruments and the relation...
SOUNDPOST
LETTER of the MONTH A SLEDGEHAMMER TO CRACK A NUT? I note in Ulrike Dederer’s article (‘Why varnish matters’, October) that the researchers used neutron analysis to monitor the uptake by wood of wate...
LATE…BUT WORTH THE WAIT
TUCKER DENSLEY
Comparing the sound spectra of the ‘Willemotte’ and ‘Titian’ brings up some interesting contrasts I first encountered the 'Willemotte' in 1994 at the Guarneri 'del Gesu' exhi...
FOLLOWING THE CLUES
Example 1 (opposite) Opening of WoO 1, a manuscript cadenza to the first movement of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, composed probably between c.1834 and c.1842-3, discovered in the Doblinger Mu...
Light-bulb moments
Graham Oppenheimer (right) leads a chamber music session at Chetham’s School of Music
I can still vividly recall my first experience of chamber music as a twelve-year-old at summer school. ...