Thursday, December 10, 2009

What do you string a Stradivarius with?

Or any other expensive violin.



I was reading an article about the musician who fell down the stairs and smashed his $1 mil violin, which made me wonder what you string such expensive violins with.



What do you string a Stradivarius with?headache



Yes, I read the same article the other night. Makes you wonder what a flimsy sort of case he was using at the time ? Yes, it was in a case.



http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7244...



I was trying to find out about the strings the other day but I could not find too much information



Anne Sophie Mutter owns two Strads and here she appears to be endorsing Dominants.



http://www.thomastik-infeld.com/johcgi/t...



I do know that some other violinists who have very expensive instruments (Stradivarius and Guarnerius ) use Dominants.



Hilary Hahn uses Dominants on her Viullaume violin...except for the E string, of course.



http://www.thomastik-infeld.com/johcgi/t...



I would have thought there would be more information about this subject, especially forn the string maufactureres them selves eg "Itzhak Perlman uses our brand of strings etc. "



Most of these old violins have had their necks replaced so that they can be strung with higher tension steel strings.



http://beginningpreservation.blogspot.co...



PS Found it



http://www.violinist.com/discussion/resp...



The list shows that many of them use Dominants : Vengerov, Perlman, Shaham,Midori, Zukerman. ; they usually replace the E string with something better.



And this list shows that many of them either play Strads or a Guarneri (del Gesu)



http://www.violinist.com/discussion/resp...



What do you string a Stradivarius with?paramount theater opera theater



Violin strings of your choosing. And don't fall. And have a good, protective case.

No comments:

Post a Comment

 
live update