When world-renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma visited the nearly completed Green Music Center in 2011, he did not bring either of his famous cellos: the Davidov Stradivarius crafted in 1712 or the Montagnana ...
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BATTLE GROUND — One day in December 2016, during a rail journey into same northern Italian countryside where the legendary luthier Antonio Stradivari made his stringed masterpieces, Mark and Sharon ...
The fragrance of varnish and curing wood drifts by as you enter Side Door Strings, transporting you to an era when objects and the tools that built them were all made by hand. A violin in the raw sits ...
New Mexico’s own Anne Cole is one of those solo entrepreneurs whose business stems from her own zeal to achieve perfection in her craft. As a master builder of violins, violas and cellos, her handmade ...
SEATTLE — In a small house on Queen Anne Hill, masters of their craft breath new life into priceless instruments that date back hundreds of years. "I’ve got instruments that are built from 1590,” said ...
SALT LAKE CITY — The lights are on in the shop where Adam Day and his band of violin-makers ply their craft. But if the lights weren't on? No worries. They'd still have a job. The whole technological ...
On a recent Thursday, Matt Haimovitz, the forty-seven-year-old virtuoso cellist, packed an empty instrument case into the back of his car and drove from his home, in Montreal, to a friend’s apartment ...
NEW YORK — It was Sept. 14, 2013, when a mysterious email bearing the subject line “Is this your first cello?” landed in Christine Walevska’s inbox. The renowned cello virtuoso, however, checked her ...