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wosu.org
The article reports on a violin claimed to have been owned by Wallace Hartley, bandmaster of the Titanic, being sold for about $1.7 million. It notes skepticism about the attribution and recounts prior claims.
classicalite.com
Min-Jin Kym’s Stradivarius, nicknamed the ex-Kym, will be sold by Tarisio. Online bids start at £1 million with potential final bids above £2 million, and a portion of proceeds will benefit authorities involved in recovery.
patch.com
Elizabeth Pitcairn brings her 1720 “Red Violin” to Glencairn Museum in Bryn Athyn for a concert on November 16, dedicated to her cousin Lachlan Pitcairn, a longtime patron of classical music who died at 91.
irishexaminer.com
The article discusses Leonardo da Vinci’s imagined viola organista and its revival by Polish pianist-instrument maker Slawomir Zubrzycki, who built a functional version in Krakow after about three years and more than 5,000 hours.
dekerivers.wordpress.com
The post covers violinist Augustin Hadelich performing with the Madison Symphony Orchestra using the Ex-Kiesewetter Stradivarius dating to 1723. The article is by dekerivers on CAFFEINATED POLITICS and is dated November 17, 2013.
slate.com
The article discusses Leonardo da Vinci’s late-15th-century viola organista design, rebuilt by Polish pianist Slawomir Zubrzycki, and features a video performance with analysis of its sound and mechanism.
smithsonianmag.com
The article discusses Leonardo da Vinci’s proposed viola organista and how Slawomir Zubrzycki recreated a working version, performing at the International Royal Cracow Piano Festival. It describes the instrument’s design with sixty-one steel strings, four spinning wheels wrapped in horse-tail hair, a pedal-driven crankshaft, and how the keys press strings against the wheels to produce tones.
neveryetmelted.com
The post on Never Yet Melted discusses Leonardo da Vinci's concept of the viola organista and reports that Slawomir Zubrzycki has built a functioning version of the instrument, incorporating a piano-like keyboard, spinning wheels with horse-tail hair, and a crank-driven mechanism. The piece notes that da Vinci’s designs appear in Codex Atlanticus and reflects on the historical absence of evidence that he or others built the instrument in his time.
prnewswire.co.uk
Yi-Jia Susanne Hou with the London Symphony Orchestra records and creates a TV documentary with the 1735 Fritz Kreisler Guarneri del Gesù violin, valued at $6 million, before returning it to the Stradivari Society of Chicago.
theglobeandmail.com
Yi-Jia Susanne Hou is the Canadian violinist who will perform one final time with the London Symphony Orchestra using a $6-million violin made in 1735 by Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesù, loaned through the Stradivari Society; the instrument, dubbed the ‘vixen,’ has a storied history including associations with Fritz Kreisler and Lady Mary Portman.
classical-music.com
Two 24-carat gold-plated violins encrusted with diamonds, rubies and sapphires were created in a partnership between Bridge and Theo Fennell and are being played by the electric violin group FUSE, featuring Linzi Stoppard and Ben Lee. Each violin is valued at over £2 million. FUSE previously collaborated with Swarovski to create crystal violins worth $1.5 million each.