Strad cornerless violin

[Mat Roop]

Does anyone know where can I find a picture of the Strad cornerless violin?

Thanks, Mat

[Bruce Carlson]

Does anyone know where can I find a picture of the Strad cornerless violin?

Thanks, Mat

Hi Mat,

Go to this link for some shots of the Chanot-Chardon Stradivari of 1718. You may have to sign up to see all of the photographs.

http://www.cozio.com/Instrument.aspx?id=3054

We had a cornerless Stradivari viola d'amore that was converted into a violin in the 1987 exhibition in Cremona, but that's another story. It's illustrated in the catalogue.

Bruce

[Mat Roop]

Thanks Bruce!

Cheers, Mat

[JimMurphy]

Go to this link for some shots of the Chanot-Chardon Stradivari of 1718. ...http://www.cozio.com/Instrument.aspx?id=3054

So, it's 1718 and by all historic accounts Stradivari had already nailed the acoustics of his Golden Period corpus design- and yet here he

reverts [once again] to a Baroque guitar-shaped corpus for this cornerless Violin. Interesting!

Thanks,

Jim

[Torbjörn Zethelius]

So, it's 1718 and by all historic accounts Stradivari had already nailed the acoustics of his Golden Period corpus design- and yet here he

reverts [once again] to a Baroque guitar-shaped corpus for this cornerless Violin. Interesting!

Thanks,

Jim

Isn't that the one that Joshua Bell played on? If so, it has definitely been converted.

[Roger Hill]

Isn't that the one that Joshua Bell played on? If so, it has definitely been converted.

Yes. see here http://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-media/pr...TF8&index=0

[allezlesbleus]

What's it sound like?

ALB

[lyndon]

a stradivarius, ok im just being a smart ass :)

[Roger Hill]

What's it sound like?

ALB

All I can go by is the recording pictured in the link. Wonderful silky highs. The opening bars of the Bruch do not exhibit that powerful growl that you hear on a del Gesu, but any great soloist, an 18 year old Joshua bell in particular, should sound wonderful with this violin. The Mendelsohn is also on that CD and it is as good as any other recording of it I have heard (i have four recordings of it).

[allezlesbleus]

All I can go by is the recording pictured in the link. Wonderful silky highs. The opening bars of the Bruch do not exhibit that powerful growl that you hear on a del Gesu, but any great soloist, an 18 year old Joshua bell in particular, should sound wonderful with this violin. The Mendelsohn is also on that CD and it is as good as any other recording of it I have heard (i have four recordings of it).

Thanks for the report. Alasdair White with The Battlefield Band plays one, nice sounding fiddle and a damn fine player.

Groovy tailpiece on it as well.

ALB

[cbouts]

Alasdair White is a cool guy - Ive played his violin in Dallas before and one of the first things that struck me was the lack of sound - it's really built to be plugged in onstage. (Funny story he walked around for over an hour with one of my instruments and I lost track of him and the violin, ended up finding them outside the hotel starting a wicked session with the bell hop outside dancing around)

[lyndon]

call me lame but thats not a stradivarius headstock on that violin, neck replacement? :)

[allezlesbleus]

Alasdair White is a cool guy - Ive played his violin in Dallas before and one of the first things that struck me was the lack of sound - it's really built to be plugged in onstage.

Ahh, I've only heard it in a concert context. It's resistant to feedback? Was it custom built for this purpose or just a happy coincidence?

ALB

PS--Wow, les Bleus suck...