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About a year ago I wrote a blog entry called ‘Bring on the Viola‘ which discussed the merits of this sometimes overlooked and under-appreciated instrument […]
Read More →About a year ago I wrote a blog entry called ‘Bring on the Viola‘ which discussed the merits of this sometimes overlooked and under-appreciated instrument […]
Read More →Back in the summer, we were approached to take part in a very exciting project – to record the real strings strings for a song […]
Read More →Many violinists, violists and cellists have experienced the joys of playing a concerto with an orchestral reduction which has been written for the piano. Often, […]
Read More →The celebrated Italian Violinist and composer Guiseppe Tartini (1692-1770) has been credited in discovering the phenomenon of an audible ‘third voice’ when playing double stops […]
Read More →All the members of the family of instruments in the string section (excluding the double bass) are tuned in fifths. This means that (including the […]
Read More →Congratulations this week to the Granite Shore who have just sent us the final mix of two songs which we have provided strings for. As […]
Read More →Left Hand Pizzicato is a specialised technique which is generally employed in more virtuosic string music and involves the fingers of the left hand actually […]
Read More →Marcato (from the Italian for ‘marked’) is an umbrella term that can apply to all instruments and therefore not a specific string instruction (like spiccato […]
Read More →Really, I don’t like the term ‘up and down bow’ very much because the motion of a bow is very fluid and when played artfully, […]
Read More →Occasionally we are approached by clients who are self financing a project or who are on a very restricted budget, yet are unhappy using samples […]
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