Author Archives: KindaScratchy

Join the forum discussion on this postFrom LiveScience: The brain waves of two musicians synchronize when they are performing duet, a new study found, suggesting that there’s a neural blueprint for coordinating actions with others. A team of scientists at … Continue reading →

From The Guardian: For about 250 years, from the mid-16th century to the late 1700s, a little town on the banks of the river Po was a music-making capital. It was the birthplace not only of Antonio Stradivari, the still … Continue reading →

From the Providence Journal www.projo.com PROVIDENCE — Robert Portukalian has spent the last month trucking 500 violins to his home in Warwick, preparing to close down his Providence Violin Shop at 1279 North Main St. after a run of more … Continue reading →

From the Journal News, Westchester, NY (www.lohud.com): Former finance executive Jay Dweck already owns some rare violins — a Guarneri and a Stradivarius — and he just added another to his portfolio. This one, however, is a pool. Make that … Continue reading →

From PRI’s The World: http://youtu.be/H3i8BIny1qk British police say they believe they have recovered a $1.84 million Stradivarius violin that was taken from acclaimed Korean musician Min-Jin Kym more than two years ago when she was in a sandwich shop near … Continue reading →

From The Age: A rare double bass, crafted from spruce and pear wood in the 16th century, but with a ”subwoofer-like quality”, is the latest addition to the Australian Chamber Orchestra’s line-up of historically significant instruments. Made by Gasparo da … Continue reading →

From artsjournal.com: It’s the Vieuxtemps Guarnerius, on the market for $20 million. We don’t think it fetched quite that much, but it has been given on loan to Anne-Akiko Meyers and she’s making the most of it. Read the pedigree … Continue reading →

From NPR: The violin and viola that Mozart played himself are in the United States for the first time ever. The instruments come out of storage only about once a year at the Salzburg Mozarteum in Austria. The rest of … Continue reading →

From the New York Daily News: This was one captive audience. When four members of the Philadelphia Orchestra found themselves stuck on board a delayed flight for nearly three hours, they decided to get to work. Two violinists, a cellist … Continue reading →

From Science Daily A good violin depends not only on the expertise of the violin maker, but also on the quality of the wood that is used. The Swiss wood researcher Professor Francis W. M. R. Schwarze (Empa, Swiss Federal … Continue reading →