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For over 200 years, Antonio Stradivari has been universally regarded as the greatest violin maker who ever lived, yet it is not widely known that he made virtually every kind of bowed- and plucked-string instrument popular in the Baroque period, including lutes, viols, mandolins, guitars, and harps. Stradivari provides a fascinating biography of this legendary maker, based on newly discovered material in church and civic archives, alongside technical descriptions and analyses of many of the maker's workshop materials preserved in the Museo Stradivariano in Cremona, particularly as they relate to extant and lost instruments, baroque stringing and instrument adjustment, and early performance practice. There are separate chapters for each type of instrument, allowing the reader to easily locate information. The book contains tables of measurements of Stradivari's forms and patterns, over 100 black and white photographs and drawings, and colour photographs of 16 of Stradivari's most important violins, violas, and cellos.

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Book category Books in English The arts Music Techniques of music / music tutorials

• Full title: Stradivari
• Author: Stewart Pollens
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 366
• EAN: 9780521873048
• ISBN: 0521873045
• ID: 04379035
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 1370 g
• Dimensions: 282 × 228 × 28 mm
• Date of publishing: 11. February 2010

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