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Signs of a Passionate Player?

Italian is the traditional language of music– which meant that when I got to Italy, I was well equipped to ask someone to sing to me with much vivacity at a gradually accelerating tempo, but not so well equipped to ask for a bathroom.

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Playing with Guts

I had a lesson with baroque violinist Stefano Montanari today, and he stretched animal intestines across my violin when I had finished. This was a compliment.
Baroque violins are different from modern instruments in several respects, one of the most important of which is the strings, which are traditionally made of cat-gut instead of metal/synthetic blends. [...]

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