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| | Seitz Violins - Myths and Facts |
 | | Stradivari took the violin, already an established instrument and brought it to its peak of artistic and acoustic perfection. | | | Stradivari used different patterns throughout his life and a date inside a violin may indicate which particular pattern was used as a starting point. | | | In fact, many violins made between the death of Stradivari and the late 1700's, including Italian violins, are copies of Jacob Stainer. |
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http://www.westendweb.com/seitzviolins/mythsandfacts.htm
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| | York Gate Collections at the Royal Academy of Music: about Stradivari |
| | Stradivari's earliest violins show strong stylistic similarities to the "small pattern" violins of Nicolò Amati. | | | The Habeneck violin of about 1734 was made when Stradivari was over 90. | | | Little is known of Stradivari's early life and training as a violin maker, he started using his own label in 1666 and while early labels identify him as a pupil of Nicolò Amati this is not corroborated by independent documentary evidence. |
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http://www.ram.ac.uk/museum/stradivari.htm
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| | Did "Little Ice Age" Create Stradivarius Violins' Famous Tone? |
| | Stradivari was the most famous of these craftsmen, and produced over 1,100 violas, guitars, cellos, and violins. | | | Many of the most distinguished violins ever created were produced by famous local families of violin makers—such as Amati, Guarneri and Stradivari—in the 17th and early 18th centuries. | | | Instruments crafted from the late 17th century onwards by revered violin maker Antonio Stradivari sell for millions of dollars today, and musicians and scientists have long sought to explain their superb sound quality. |
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http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/01/0107_040107_violin.html
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| | Antonio Stradivari, Chapter Eight, Part Three |
| | Stradivari's violin finger-boards were of several different lengths. | | | Stradivari's were generally made from odd pieces of maple, cuttings from the slabs used for the backs; in some cases the top was veneered in ebony or an Italian wood. | | | The necks of Stradivari's violins were of the same dimensions as those of the Amatis. |
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http://www.cello.org/heaven/hill/eight3.htm
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| | Antonio Stradivari, Chapter Eight |
| | The number of Stradivari violins retaining their original top block is very limited, their removal having been rendered necessary by various circumstances; and the few which do still exist have had the nails removed, leaving the three holes and the impression made by the nail-heads in the soft wood plainly visible. | | | Maggini varied the thicknesses of the backs of his violins from 1/8 to 11/64 of an inch in the centre, graduating to 5/64 at the flanks. | | | The finish of these parts in many of the Amati violins, especially in those of the last period of Nicolo, gives the impression of having been hurriedly done-strangely in contrast with the exterior work. |
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http://www.cello.org/heaven/hill/eight.htm
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| | Guardian Unlimited Arts Friday Review Lord of the strings |
| | But the violins Stradivari made are not perfect; they can be moody; they have off-days. | | | Everything about the violin is consistent with its label, "Antonius Stradivarius Cremonensis Faciebat Anno 1716". | | | More than 250 years after his death, Antonio Stradivari's violins and cellos are the best in the world. |
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/fridayreview/story/0,12102,1291260,00.html
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| | Violin- Famous Violin Makers |
| | Antonio Stradivari, maker of Stradivarius violins, is probably the most famous violin maker ever. | | | In 1684, Amati died and Stradivari changed his violin design to have an orange tint with a more powerful form. | | | Throughout his lifetime, he made 1,116 instruments including twenty-five violas, one hundred cellos, two guitars, and six-hundred violins. |
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http://www-atdp.berkeley.edu/2030/jmoriuchi/violin-famousviolinmakers.html
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| | NPR : The Sweet Sound of a Stradivarius |
| | This is why a violin made by Stradivari is known as a Stradivarius. | | | Guarneri's violins, while often less refined in appearance than those of Stradivari, are renowned for their tonal beauty and power. | | | Working into his nineties, Stradivari probably made a thousand violins or more, of which about 650 survive. |
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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1972690
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| | Stradivarius - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | There are two complete Stradivari guitars in existence, as well as several fragments of guitars. | | | These instruments are famous for the quality of their sound and there have been many attempts to reproduce the sound quality. | | | Their individual qualities are considered worth distinguishing, and a Strad is often identified by the name of someone (often a famous musician) who formerly owned it, or regularly performed on it. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stradivarius
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| | Around the Mall and Beyond - Sharing the Gift of Music |
| | In Stradivari's time, music was played in small chambers, and it was not until the 19th century that music was written for larger orchestras in public theaters. | | | A few months ago a remarkable man named Herbert Axelrod donated two Stradivari violins, a Stradivari viola and a Stradivari cello to the Smithsonian, creating what is now known as the Axelrod Quartet. | | | Before then, violins made by Austrian Jakob Stainer were more sought after than Stradivari's. |
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http://www.smithsonianmag.si.edu/smithsonian/issues98/aug98/mall_aug98.html
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| | Untitled |
| | Stradivari's and Guarneri del Gesu's violins are the most worthy instruments today. | | | Finally the instrument was taken for a violin made by the french master Vuillaume who is thought of as the "French Stradivari". | | | His violins are said to sound cleanly, well-balanced, firmly and dynamically. |
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http://www.xcity.de/ext/stradivari/engl/portrait_e.htm
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| | BandWiki - Stradivari |
| | Stradivari is a 5-piece band based out of Thunder Bay, ON, Canada. | | | With a new, heavier sound Stradivari seemed to be well on their way. | | | Packed with a heavy, melodic sound and deep, powerful lyrics — Stradivari strives toward success. |
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http://www.tjernobyl.org/bandwiki/index.php?page=Stradivari
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| | Toby Faber, Stradivari's Genius: Five Violins, One Cello, and Three Centuries of Enduring Perfection |
| | When Stradivari lived, there was very little music written for the violin, and the instrument almost never appeared solo but was rather part of a consort that played in relatively intimate spaces. | | | Although Stradivari is now the most widely known name in violins, it is more than a little interesting to realize that these instruments, as is often the case with the creations of genius, had to wait for the world to catch up with them. | | | It was really in the nineteenth century that the Strad came into its own, when composers of the caliber of Beethoven, Brahms, and Tchaikovsky were writing their concerti and sonatas for violin. |
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http://www.greenmanreview.com/book/book_faber_stradivarisgenius.html
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| | Encyclopedia Smithsonian:Guarneri |
| | Stradivari and Guarnerius are ranked as the greatest of violin makers, and some fine violinists prefer the instruments of Joseph Guarnerius del Gesu to those of Stradivari. | | | Approximately 250 violins, 4 violas, and 14 violoncellos by him are thought to exist. | | | The outline of his violins, with slight modifications, is founded on instruments of Antonio Stradivari. |
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http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/nmah/guarneri.htm
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| | The Stradivari Society - Strad Magazine Article |
| | I sold the "Ruby" Stradivari of 1708 to Mary Galvin, who had studied violin as a girl. | | | All the instruments were recorded and photographed in conjunction with 15 Stradivari violins, creating a rare opportunity to compare and contrast the work of 'The Miracle Makers'. | | | They are looking to leave a legacy to their family and to music.' |
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http://www.stradivarisociety.com/article1.htm
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| | Soundpost Online news Messiah |
| | introduction to the record of Cozio’s dealings in Stradivari violins. | | | 4) Cozio’s Stradivari violin of 1716, which according to lore is the same violin now in the Ashmoleum Museum, Oxford, is discussed or mentioned in about 13 of the 100 separate manuscripts (MS) now kept in the Biblioteca Statale in Cremona. | | | Between 1773 and 1775, Count Cozio acquired perhaps twelve or thirteen Stradivari violins from Cremonese vendors. |
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http://www.soundpostonline.com/archive/winter2001/page6.htm
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| | Mailgate: rec.music.makers.chamber-music: Stradivari 'owes it all to worms' |
| | Dr Nagyvary thinks no one realised the effect of the borax on the instrument's acoustics and consequently the Cremonese thought Stradivari had taken the secret of his violins to his grave. | | | http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=000143789351982andrtmo=0xeXKrbqandatmo=rrrrrrrq andpg=/et/01/3/31/wviol31.html Electronic Telegraph International News ISSUE 2136 Saturday 31 March 2001 Stradivari 'owes it all to worms' By Robert Uhlig, Technology Correspondent THE secret of why the sounds of Stradivarius violins have never been surpassed may be hidden in their maker's unwitting attempt to protect them against woodworm, a scientist has discovered. | | | Dr Nagyvary's violin was cut by a computer-controlled carving machine and used wood soaked in brine to emulate Stradivari's wood supplies. |
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http://mailgate.supereva.it/rec/rec.music.makers.chamber-music/msg00273.html
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| | Soundpost Online |
| | Purportedly the violin remained in the Stradivari estate until it was sold along with other instruments and numerous Stradivari workshop relics, in 1775 by Paolo Stradivari, the last surviving son of Antonio Stradivari. | | | The itinerant violin dealer, Luigi Tarisio is said to have purchased the “Messiah” violin from the Cozio estate upon the death of Count Cozio in 1827. | | | This is at odds with the original conclusion of Klein which was corroborated by Kuniholm and places the date of the spruce for the front of the "Messiah" at 1738, one year after Antonio Stradivari's death. |
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http://www.soundpostonline.com/archive/fall2000/page17.html
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| | Antonio Stradivari - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Apart from violins, Stradivari also made harps, guitars, violas, and cellos â” more than 1,100 instruments in all, by current estimate. | | | Antonio Stradivari ( 1644 - December 18, 1737) was an Italian luthier (maker of violins and other stringed instruments), the most prominent member of that profession. | | | An outstanding book about Stradivari's method for the design of his violins http://home.scarlet.be/~tor-4879/stradivari.htm |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Stradivari
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| | Encyclopedia Smithsonian: Stradvarius Violins |
| | In addition, thousands of violins have been made in tribute to Stradivari, copying his model and bearing labels that read "Stradivarius." Therefore, the presence of a Stradivarius label in a violin has no bearing on whether the instrument is a genuine work of Stradivari himself. | | | Goodkind, Herbert K. Violin Iconography of Antonio Stradivari, 1644-1737: Treatises on the Life and Work of the Patriarch of the Violinmakers. | | | His interpretation of geometry and design for the violin has served as a conceptual model for violin makers for more than 250 years. |
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http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/nmah/stradv.htm
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| | Antonio Stradivari, Chapter Seven |
| | They are constructed on the principles of Stradivari, the material used is in many cases acoustically equal, yet they have by no means the same character of tone as a Stradivari. | | | Vuillaume varnished all his violins alike, whether they were copies of Stradivari, Guarneri, or Amati, and accordingly the character of their tone varies but little. | | | It is, for instance, known to not a few that Stradivari violins give forth a character of tone perfectly distinct from those of his great rival, Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesu. |
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http://www.celloheaven.com/hill/seven.htm
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| | The Messiah Stradivari Violin |
| | Between the years 1774 and 1776 the great violin collector Count Cozio di Salabue bought many violins made by Francesco Stradivari, as well as many of Antonio's violins that were still available in the Stradivari workshop, from Antonio's youngest son, Paolo, who was a cloth dealer. | | | They wrote about the "Messiah" in their famous work on the life of Antonio Stradivari, and also wrote a monograph just about the "Messiah." They repurchased the violin in 1904, sold it again in 1913, and repurchased it again in 1928. | | | A debate is presently raging amongst experts as to whether or not the violin was actually made by Antonio Stradivari, as some scientific authorities have dated the wood of the instrument as coming from the year following the death of the master luthier. |
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http://www.celloheaven.com/hill/messiah/messiah.htm
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| | Stradivari Guitar on Exhibit at the National Music Museum |
| | Stradivari Guitar on Exhibit at the National Music Museum | | | The Rawlins guitar is one of two documented guitars made by the famous Italian craftsman known to survive. | | | The Rawlins has five double strings, typical of the 17th century, rather than the six single strings found on modern guitars. |
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http://www.usd.edu/smm/rawlins5.html
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| | Violin making in Cremona |
| | In Piazza Stradivari The Consorzio manages the Permanent Exhibition of the Cremonese Contemporary Violin Making, conceived to offer the musicians a complete view of the Cremonese production: it is possible to try instruments and bows and to buy them. | | | This Center (that is also a representative seat of the classical Cremonese violin making tradition and a point of reference for those people interested in violin making) completes the Cremonese lute itinerary that includes the Civic Collection of Old Instruemnts, the Museo Stradivariano and the Violin Making International School. | | | At the exhibition it is available a wide range of stringed instruments with modern or baroque assembly and relative bows, different articles relating to violin making, accessories, specialized publishing, cases and photographic reproductions of original documents and instruments. |
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http://www.entetriennale.com/liuteria_eng.htm
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| | Dr. UGUR AKMAN`s Hobby: Auction - 2 |
| | The important Kreutzer Stradivari violin of 1727 will be the highlight of Christie's South Kensington's Musical Instruments sale on April 1, 1998. | | | The violin was most recently owned by the late George Kress of Green Bay, Wis., who paid $24,000 for it in 1958, Christie's said. |
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http://ww.boun.edu.tr/~che/akman/violin/auction2.html
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| | Stradivari Guild Instruments, Stradivari, del Gesu, Violins |
| | At Stradivari Guild Instruments, the violins we sell, though made in our time, are exactly the same as having the one we found in the fantasy, with original Cremonese varnish, sound, appearance, all in an untouched state. | | | This is the only part of fine violin ownership that Stradivari | | | is enough to buy a Stradivari Guild violin. |
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http://mystrad.com
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| | Stradivari violin inside out |
| | This Stradivari violin believed to be in an "original" condition. | | | Stradivari violin No.59 from Russian Federation State Collection | | | However the violin hardly has any untouched area. |
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http://www.violadabraccio.com/txt/violin_research/strad.shtml
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| | The Stradivari Society - New Recipients |
| | He also polled the audience on which of three instruments made the most favorable impression tonally — and Stradivari was the winner by a large margin. | | | Not only are these recordings important as historical records, but they are also an essential asset for recipients to launch and further their careers. | | | For many years Geoffrey Fushi has been creating a valuable audio archive of Stradivari Society® instruments and recipient performances using the finest state-of-the-art equipment. |
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http://www.stradivarisociety.com/News-JapanDVD.htm
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| | Hill Viola |
| | This viola is a copy of the Macdonald Stradivari viola of 1701 |
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http://www.aviolin.com/hillviola.html
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| | AudioRevolution.com Review of the Cello Stradivari Legends |
| | The idea is that if you want to change the sound of your system for a recording you would use either a Palette Preamp or an Audio Palette tone control. | | | The percussive elements of the track were placed specifically across the soundstage and had a three dimentionality to them that is rare to find in a loudspeaker. | | | Cello Stradivari Legends are one of the single best loudspeakers I have ever heard. |
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http://www.audiorevolution.com/equip/legend/index.html
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| | The Seattle Times: Nation & World: Stradivari's 1684 cello nearly made into CD rack |
| | LOS ANGELES — A nurse found a 320-year-old cello made by master craftsman Antonio Stradivari near a trash bin and almost had her boyfriend convert it into a CD holder, police said yesterday. | | | The Seattle Times: Nation & World: Stradivari's 1684 cello nearly made into CD rack | | | Wednesday, May 19, 2004 - Page updated at 12:22 A.M. Stradivari's 1684 cello nearly made into CD rack |
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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2001932934_strad19.html
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| | Part VIII-S-V |
| | Collection of Violins and Bows, Including the Associated Library of Books Relating to the Violin Family of Musical Instruments and their Players. | | | 109 items auctioned, 10 instruments illustrated (1 in color), including violins by Francesco Rugeri, two of Peter Guarneri of Mantua, two of Stradivari (one is the ex-Joachim and ex-Elman), Ferdinand Gagliano and J. Guadagninii. | | | 162 items auctioned, 63 instruments illustrated (2 in color), including violins of Grancino, Lorenzo and Tomasso Carcassi, Giulio Degani, Storioni, and the Lyall Stradivari, a viola by Pierre and Hippolyte Silvestre, cellos by Forster, Joseph Panormo and Testore, and the Kreutzer Tourte bow. |
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http://www.montagnanabooks.com/PartVIII-S-V.html
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| | Stradivari, Antonio -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | Stradivari was still a pupil of Nicolò Amati in 1666 when he began to place his own label on violins of his making. | | | The proportions he set for the violin are followed by most... | | | Latin Stradivarius Italian violin maker who brought the craft of violin-making to its highest pitch of perfection. |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?eu=71688
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| | STRADIVARI & HIS SILVER STRINGS Vinyl Records ~ Used, Rare, Collectible and Vintage Vinyl LPs & 45s |
| | STRADIVARI & HIS SILVER STRINGS Vinyl Records ~ Used, Rare, Collectible and Vintage Vinyl LPs & 45s | | | We are continually scouring the country and the world for the rarest & finest vintage STRADIVARI & HIS SILVER STRINGS records, LPs & 45s. | | | Records by Mail maintains one of the largest selections of rare and vintage STRADIVARI & HIS SILVER STRINGS vinyl records available anywhere - online or off. |
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http://www.recordsbymail.com/static/artistSearch.php/artistFirst/artistLast/STRADIVARI%20&%20HIS%20SILVER%20STRINGS
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| | Good Morning Stradivari |
| | He's busy working and being patient with me as I run around the violin making studio taking artsy shots of him working. | | | posted by good morning stradivari at 3/10/2005 11:02:00 PM 1 comments | | | posted by good morning stradivari at 3/10/2005 04:32:00 PM 3 comments |
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http://goodmorningstradivari.blogspot.com
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| | The Stradivari 1000 The San Diego Union-Tribune |
| | The enjoyable but flawed result of his sabbatical is "Stradivari's Genius," a book aimed at the Cremonese artisan's admirers, who want to know something about the man and who wonder why the 1,000 or so violins, violas and cellos that he built nearly 300 years ago remain so prized. | | | Stradivari's Genius: Five Violins, One Cello, and Three Centuries of Enduring Perfection | | | Tony Faber, taking a break from managing his family's publishing firm, Faber and Faber, is just the right kind of outsider: about 50 percent skilled writer, 30 percent decent reporter and 20 percent idealist. |
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http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20050508/news_lz1v08stradi.html
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| | Antonio Stradivari Book |
| | There are individual descriptive articles by Charles Beare noting the significance and provenance of the 27 violins, 5 violas, 5 cellos, and other instruments of the period. | | | It also includes an introduction to the history of Cremonese violin making, centered on the achievements of Stradivari's working life. | | | The book contains a comprehensive record of forty-four of Stradivari's finest and most interesting instruments. |
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http://www.beares.com/bookcharlesbeare.htm
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| | USATODAY.com - Secret ingredient in Stradivari may be heaven sent |
| | KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — The secret of a Stradivarius violin's heavenly sound may actually have celestial origins. | | | Burckle, who studies global climate change through the lives of tiny sea creatures at Columbia's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, N.Y., compared the dates and wondered if there was a connection. | | | Stradivari was born a year before the Maunder Minimum began, and he produced his most prized and valued stringed instruments as the period ended — his "golden period" from 1700-1720. |
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http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2003-12-01-strad-theory_x.htm
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| | Stradivari's Genius:FABER, TOBY:0375508481:eCampus.com |
| | Almost everyone knows what a Stradivarius is, yet few are aware of the amazing story of Antonio Stradivari, the seventeenth-century Italian whose incomparable craftsmanship single-handedly revolutionized the violin and therefore the entire history of Western music. | | | Working into his nineties, he made over a thousand violins, cellos, and violas, of which around six hundred survive. | | | In an engaging, accessible narrative, Toby Faber explores this mystery across three centuries, starting in Stradivari's workshop and continuing through the lives of six of his masterpieces as they are bought and sold, played and collected, imitated and counterfeited. |
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http://www.ecampus.com/bk_detail.asp?isbn=0375508481
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| | Artifact: Full Record for Antonio Stradivari |
| | Sections on the myth of Stradivari and violin making are still under construction (March 2005). | | | Description: Available in German and English and created by Thomas Knierim, this web site is dedicated to Antonio Stradivari (1644-1737), "the most famous violin maker [who] ever lived". | | | It consists of the following sections: a portrait of Stradivari; a teacher / pupil generations tree; a bibliography on Stradivari, violin making and bowed instruments; and FAQs. |
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http://www.artifact.ac.uk/displayoai.php?id=5674
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| | The Stradivari Museum |
| | Also in the Museum, a didactic room with an exhibition on how to make a violin (explanations also in Braille) and a video in English on the history of violin making. | | | First bought by Count Cozio di Salabue from Paolo, Stradivari’s son, the collection passed several hands to get to Giuseppe Fiorini, violin maker in Bologna, who donated the precious collection to the City of Cremona in 1930. | | | A unique collection of forms and tools used by Antonio Stradivari. |
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http://www.cremonatravel.com/museo_gb.html
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