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Albums
Patrons
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2024
Kevork
Enumerable tradeoffs
Q & A with Anthony Lane
2023
Tapping in
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Movie music isn’t classical music
The West’s dirty secret
Knuckle gaze
Left hand looks
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I’m training right now
Y-intercepts
2022
The Lone Trail
Scumbag brain
2021
Ten years with Jan Špidlen
2020
Knight of cups part II
Metal works
Errol Morris on J.S. Bach
‘Eschaton’ liner notes
Are violins good investments?
Complex systems
Scapegoating time past
Mix-master flow
2019
Prep trifecta
Boats & oceans
The eye of the duck
On being the right size
Creative thinking
Shadows
2018
The genius of Carnegie’s ‘How To Win Friends’
Notes on scales
Why you may want to drink up
Artist, classicist, virtuoso
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Innovation and repetition
Capture Y, or go & die
2017
Q & A with Monica Chew
René Girard
Czech mate
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The creative supervisor
2016
Was Grumiaux cheating?
Right-hand intonation
Dancing & shaking around
Of rests in Bach
2015
Ricci glissando
Well temperament
Some thoughts on Ysaÿe fingerings
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Sad Flower
2014
Oh, Tononi
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Q & A with Eric Funk
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Play the violin videogame
Zygmuntowicz on violins
2013
Concerto & sonata
A tribute to Kreisler
i
A simple DIY recording setup
Kreisler project
Polyphonic sketches
i
2012
Big news for fiddlefish
Some time alone with del Gesu
Zygmuntowicz delivers
Ruggiero Ricci’s del Gesu Zygmuntowicz copy
Strads aplenty at Tarisio
Kinski’s Paganini
PayPal destroys fiddle
2011
Samuel Nemessanyi
Antiquing with the DoD
Contemporary Violin Makers Exhibition
My new fiddle (Jan Špidlen)
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No, you’re out of tune
My new Jan Spidlen fiddle
‘Lady Blunt’ Stradivarius sold for $15,894,000
Ysaÿe: bridging eras
Back with my student violin
J.B. Vuillaume’s ‘Lady Blunt’ papers
‘Lady Blunt’ Stradivarius to be auctioned at Tarisio
Doing time with an infant violin
A Phillips a-cometh
Molitor Strad home in USA
Master or what?
del Gesù: The Plowden
An afternoon at the Met
2010
Pique violin at Fred Oster’s
VSA 2010
Record price for Strad
Del Gesu: a first encounter
Albert C. Barnes’ violins
An afternoon at Tarisio
The Molitor
Martigny, Switzerland
Patrick Robin
Arrival
Gregg Alf
First steps