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Premium ❘ FocusPostcard from San Francisco: ASTA 2026 national conference
The 2026 American String Teachers Association National Conference was a bustling and inspiring event packed full of talks and performances, as Rita Fernandes and Davina Shum discovered
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Premium ❘ ArticleProducts July 2026: Modacity practice app
A new app that acts as a practice companion for musicians
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The endpin mirrors the properties of ebony
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Premium ❘ ArticleProducts July 2026: BAM Bonbon case for ¾- and half-sized violins
The company has released a smaller version of its colourful range
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Premium ❘ FeatureMaking Matters: Examining a rare James Dodd II bow
Philip Kass looks at a rare 1839 bow that exhibits all the hallmarks and idiosyncrasies of its maker, James Dodd II
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Premium ❘ FocusSentimental Work: Laura van der Heijden on Amy Beach’s Piano Quintet
Rehearsing Amy Beach’s Piano Quintet in F sharp minor with the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective was a memorable experience for the cellist
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Premium ❘ FeatureIn Focus: A 1718 violin by Francesco Gobetti
Michel Samson on the Italian maker’s late-period instrument
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Premium ❘ FeatureA violinist’s experience of San Francisco’s disastrous 1906 fire - From the archive: June 1906
Violinist Henry Heyman gives a first-hand account of the catastrophic San Francisco fire of 1906, in a personal letter to The Strad editor Ian Lavender
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Premium ❘ Focus‘Chamber music is a microcosm of life’ - Paul Huang’s life lessons
The Taiwanese–American violinist on his formative influences and the importance of chamber music
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Premium ❘ FeatureTechnique: Working with hypermobile violinists
Drawing from both personal and teaching experience, violinist Usha Kapoor outlines the ways players and teachers can deal with hypermobility
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Premium ❘ FeatureMasterclass: Chausson Poème for Violin and Orchestra op.25
Understanding the harmonic framework is key to making sense of Chausson’s fluid, freely structured Poème, says violinist Maria Włoszczowska
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Premium ❘ ArticleAnalysis June 2026: How musical institutions have endured in Ukraine five years on
The Russo-Ukrainian war is now in its fifth year. How have Ukrainian music institutions adapted to the ongoing situation and the ever-present threat of drone attacks?
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Premium ❘ FocusAuction Report June 2026: Room for optimism
Kevin MacDonald discovers a plethora of ‘golden age’ instruments and a fine selection of bows at this season’s London sales
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A guide to creating a rich, warm red pigment for varnish preparation
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Premium ❘ FocusOpinion: Period instruments aren’t just specialist tools
Benjamin Shute questions our assumptions about contemporary instrument set‑up and the idea that period instruments are merely specialist equipment
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Premium ❘ FocusPostcard from New York City: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
In snowbound New York, Davina Shum gained an inside view of the collaborative ethos within the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
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Premium ❘ ArticleProducts June 2026: Larsen Strings Sovereign cello strings
A new fast-speaking cello set from Larsen Strings
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Premium ❘ ArticleProducts June 2026: Wittner 130th anniversary pyramid metronome
Wittner releases a new, vintage-style, metronome to mark the milestone
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The new case suspends the instruments for safety
