by brightgirl | Feb 3, 2015 | News
February 3, 2015 Joseph Curtin was invited by Stanford biophysicist Steven Block to give the February 3, 2015 physics colloquium. Curtin’s talk, “Can Stradivari’s Sound be Measured?” explores recent developments in the search for objective parameters for violin sound...
by brightgirl | May 16, 2014 | Home5, News
May 16, 2014 NPR’s Lisa Pollak and David Kestenbaum deliver a remarkably balanced story about Stradivari instruments, the Stradivari ‘brand,’ and recent blind tests that question some basic assumptions about violins, old and new.
by brightgirl | Oct 21, 2013 | News
October 21, 2013 A Curtin & Alf copy of the c.1731 ‘Gibson-Huberman’ Guarneri ‘del Gesù’ violin has set a new world auction record for an instrument by a living maker. Built by Joseph Curtin and Gregg T. Alf in 1985 for Ruggiero Ricci, the violin sold at Tarisio...
by brightgirl | Nov 1, 2012 | Articles, By JC
Joseph Curtin, The Strad, November 2012 Two years before Guadagnini’s death in 1786, King Louis XVI of France appointed a committee directed by Benjamin Franklin to investigate Franz Mesmer’s claims for the healing powers of “animal magnetism,” then being...
