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Premium ❘ FocusPostcard from Japan: Sendai International Music Competition
Rita Fernandes encountered exceptional performances but unexpected results at the ninth Sendai International Music Competition
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Premium ❘ ArticleProducts October 2025: For-Tune Strings Charm X violin strings
New strings extend the original range’s characteristics
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Premium ❘ ArticleProducts October 2025: Forte3D cello with painted top
The carbon fibre cello is now available with alternative designs
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Premium ❘ FeatureMy Space: Wiebke Lüders’ Voss workshop
Take a look at the maker’s Norwegian workshop
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Premium ❘ FeatureTrade Secrets: Fitting a marquetry inlay
A guide to adding a unique, personalised touch to an instrument front or back
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Premium ❘ Focus‘All musical styles are innately interconnected’ - Aleksey Igudesman’s life lessons
The Vienna-based violinist on his formative influences and the importance of venturing outside the norm
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Premium ❘ FeatureTechnique: effective practice technique
Advice on how to develop your own method of practice, for violinists and violists
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Premium ❘ Feature‘He found himself surrounded by a mob’ - From the Archive: September 1895
The violinist William Wolff recalls some anecdotes about his old friend, the great violinist and composer Louis Spohr (1784–1859)
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Premium ❘ ArticleProducts October 2025: divi:de travel bow
A new bow that can be disassembled to make travel simpler
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Premium ❘ FeatureMasterclass: Ysaÿe’s Rêve d’enfant op.14 for violin and piano
Violinist Nancy Zhou demonstrates the breadth of Ysaÿe’s expressive devices in an intimate piece dedicated to his son
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Premium ❘ ArticleAnalysis September 2025: The plight of music shops
The rise in online shopping has hit bricks-and-mortar retailers hard. What can instrument and sheet music shops do to entice customers back into the city centre? By Peter Somerford
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Premium ❘ FocusOpinion: The dangers of perfectionism
In striving to become the best player or educator you can be, it’s important not to fall into the trap of unhelpful perfectionism, say violinists and teachers Claire Allen and Christine Goodner
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Premium ❘ FocusSentimental Work: Thomas Demenga on Haydn’s Cello Concerto no.2 in D major
For the Swiss cellist, studying the original score of Haydn’s Cello Concerto no.2 in D major was the key to understanding the composer’s intentions
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Premium ❘ FeatureIn Focus: A 1705 violin by Giovanni Battista Rogeri
Julian Hersh examines an instrument made only a few years before the Brescian maker’s death
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FocusMaking Matters: The consequences of a pernambuco ban
With a worldwide ban on the pernambuco trade again becoming a real possibility, Christian Lloyd looks at the potential consequences for musicians, makers, dealers and anyone who loves instrument bows
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Premium ❘ FocusPostcard from Milan: Antonio Mormone International Prize
The Antonio Mormone competition’s violin edition took place over an exacting thirteen-month period. Lauren Wesley-Smith attended the finals in Milan to hear the top three contenders
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Premium ❘ FocusPostcard from Prague: Metelka Violin Making Competition
John Dilworth was a very hands-on judge at the 2025 Metelka Violin Making Competition, where he was gratified to find the art of lutherie in a healthy state
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Premium ❘ ArticleProducts September 2025: Potter Plane Rest
The new product improves the luthier’s grip on the plane
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Premium ❘ ArticleProducts September 2025: Viva La Musica Diamond No.1 violin shoulder rest
The rest is a new version of the company’s existing Diamond range
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Premium ❘ ArticleProducts September 2025: Pirastro Evah Pirazzi Neo violin strings
The new set was created in collaboration with Janine Jansen and focuses on low frequencies
