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Hi everyone, This is a PSA post about the Mahoney Music Collection (books, journals, pamphlets, periodicals related to the violin family). I want it to do a bit of advertising here because it has a lot of amazing resources for makers, researchers, and musicians, but the collection is underused. I had the chance to visit the stacks today and they really have some wonderful stuff. The collection has almost every book you can imagine (books about makers, musicians, schools of violin making, journals, children’s books related to music, auction publications, appraisals, materials, woodworking—you name it). It would be very nice if this wonderful resource received more attention. They have some digitizing capabilities, but they need to know that people are really interested in a given book before spending time scanning it. I’m assuming many of you also know about the National Music Museum in Vermillion, SD (that is the most amazing place ever), so if you want to visit South Dakota, you can kill two birds with one stone (both the museum and the collection accept research requests). Here is the link to the collection: https://libguides.usd.edu/ASCCollections/mahoney Not all materials are in the USD Library system; however, there is a PDF listing all items with the original donor classification. Here is the link to the Archives & Special Collections USD blog (they post about the collection from time to time): https://archivesandspecialcollections.wordpress.com/ The link to the NMM website: https://www.nmmusd.org/ If you have any questions, send me a message — I work/study at the NMM, and I am happy to help.
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Has anyone else come across this? https://publishing.aip.org/publications/latest-content/capturing-and-analyzing-subtle-combination-tones-produced-by-violins/ If the existence of combination tones has been proven, that sounds significant. I do however, think it would be of interest if, for the sake of comparison, a further acoustic experiment would include some old violins that don’t sound very good and some new ones that are considered to be at the current highest level of craftsmanship and/or tone.
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Hi. I am currently doing my university graduation project on violin teaching, would you mind to help if you had taught/is teaching any violin students from 6-8 years old? Thank you (it takes about 5 minutes) Below is the link to the survey: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfNbULI-rcFNCfrLEVizSp46JR-OcsvhWlVnHl-HbAQ6W1k3A/viewform?usp=sf_link Thank you again Volkner
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Hello - I am researching three violinists - Amely Heller - ca. 1905 Helen Jourdan-Morhange - b. 1888 d. 1961 Anne Briggs - ca. 1895 (her sister, Esther Briggs played piano) I have exhausted my resources to find any dates of performance or bibliographic material - Jourdan-Morhange was a friend & colleague of Ravel. Does anyone know about digital files of back issues of The Strad magazine, other periodicals such as Violins and Violinists and The Violin Times. Cheers - Andrew -
Summary: Power efficiency in the violin Full article: The evolution of air resonance power efficiency in the violin and its ancestors The abstract from the article:
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“Imitation, Genetic Lineages, and Time Influenced the Morphological Evolution of the Violin” It doesn’t look like there is anything new and earth shattering here, but still a fun and interesting read.
