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The tuning G–D–A–E is used for most violin music, including Classical music, jazz, and folk music. Other tunings are occasionally employed; the G string, for example, can be tuned up to A. The use of nonstandard tunings in classical music is known as scordatura; in some folk styles, it is called cross tuning.
Although no photographs of Paganini are known to exist, in 1900 Italian violin maker Giuseppe Fiorini forged the now famous fake daguerreotype of the celebrated violinist. [29] So well in fact, that even the great classical author and conversationalist Arthur M. Abell was led to believe it to be true, reprinting the image in the 22 January 1901 ...
The violin has 70 parts, 72 if top and bottom plates are each made from two pieces of wood. The most famous violin makers, between the early 16th century and the 18th century included: Micheli family of Italian violin makers, Zanetto Micheli 1490 - 1560, Pellegrino Micheli 1520 - 1607, Giovanni Micheli 1562 - 1616, Francesco Micheli 1579 - 1615 ...
[42] [43] In a particularly famous test on a BBC Radio 3 programme in 1977, the violinists Isaac Stern and Pinchas Zukerman and the violin expert and dealer Charles Beare tried to distinguish between the "Chaconne" Stradivarius, a 1739 Guarneri del Gesú, an 1846 Vuillaume, and a 1976 British violin played behind a screen by a professional ...
His pattern was unusually small, but he also made a wider model now known as the "Grand Amati", which have become his most sought-after violins. Of his pupils, the most famous were Antonio Stradivari and Andrea Guarneri, [5] the first of the Guarneri family of violin makers. (There is much controversy regarding the apprenticeship of Antonio ...
It is the only violin from Stradivari’s golden period [1] known to have been owned and played by the violinist Niccolò Paganini. [2] [3] When sold at a Sotheby's auction in London in November 2001 it achieved one of the highest prices ever paid for a violin at auction, [4] and became the most expensive instrument in Europe. [5]
Amati would also have been a logical choice for Antonio's parents, as he represented an old family of violin makers in Cremona, and was far superior to most other luthiers in Italy. [15] Some researchers [who?] believe there is a closer educational association between Antonio Stradivari and Francesco Rugeri than has previously been recognized ...
This violin, now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, may have been part of a set made for the marriage of Philip II of Spain to Elisabeth of Valois in 1559, which would make it one of the earliest known violins in existence. Andrea Amati (ca. 1505 - 1577, Cremona) was a luthier, from Cremona, Italy.