by brightgirl | Jun 1, 2010 | Articles, By JC
Joseph Curtin, adapted from an article in The Strad, June 2010 About a year ago, violist Yizhak Schottenleft his Francesco Linarol viola at my shop for a few days. Originally built as a lira da braccio, it’s one of those loosely built Old Italians whose symmetries are...
by brightgirl | Nov 1, 2009 | Articles, By JC
Joseph Curtin, adapted from an article for The Strad, November 2009 When I met Carleen Hutchins in the mid-eighties, she was already something of a legend, having co-founded the Catgut Acoustical Society, developed a system for tuning violin plates, invented a new...
