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Complete List by Title of Articles Published on Soundpost Online:

Category

Title

Author

Issue

  Marketplace

How to Buy a Violin:    

 

 

 

Safely Navigating the Marketplace  

S. Hersh

Fall '00

 

The Morning After  

S. Hersh

Winter '01

 

Finding the Instrument of Your Dreams

S. Hersh

Spring '01

 

Buying Violins Online

Richard Ward

Spring '01

 

How to Try a Violin

S. Hersh

Summer '01

 

How to Identify a Violin

S. Hersh

Fall '01

 

Appraisal Terminology

S. Hersh

Winter '02

 

What’s in a Certificate

S. Hersh

Spring '02

 

My eBay Experience

Anita Felix

Winter '01

How to Sell a Violin S. Hersh Fall '02

How to Try a Violin II             

S. Hersh Winter '03
Drawing Sound; What to Look for in a Bow S. Hersh Spring '03
Gershwin, A New Edition, (String Quartet, Clarinet) Cliff Colnot Winter '04
Anatomy of an Appraisal S. Hersh   Winter '05
What is the Rate of Return on a Stradivari Violin Hersh Consulting Fall '05
It's a Matter of Margins and Guarantees S. Hersh Spring '06
The Value of Instruments in the Eighteenth Century Alain Giraud Fall/Winter '06


 

Auction Scene:     

 

 

 

Are Major Changes Underway?         

S. Hersh

Fall '00

 

A Rare Sleeper

S. Hersh

Summer '01

 

Sotheby's Last Hurrah in Chicago

S. Hersh

Fall '01






An American Family 
(original owner, Gemunder Violin)
C.F.C. Arensberg Fall '03

 

 

 

 

Review

 

 

 

 

G. B. Guadignini, by Duane Rosengard

S. Hersh

Winter '01

 

Brahms, Violin Sonatas 
by Frank Almond, William Wolfram (CD)

Michael Adams

Spring '01

 

Heifitz As I knew Him, by Ayke Agus

Paula Chertok

Spring '01

 

Oscar Schumsky, A Life Portrait (CD)

Ralph Wolin

Fall '01

 

The British Violin, by Tim Baker, et al

Chris Reuning

Summer '01

 

Alma Rose, Vienna to Auschwitz 
by R. Newman, K. Kirtley

Paul Hersh

Winter '02

 

Arnold Schoenberg’s Journey, by Allen Shawn

Paul Hersh

Spring '02

  Watching "The Art of the Violin" Ralph Wolin Spring '02
Elliot Carter's Harmony Book Paul Hersh Fall '02
Lessons from the Past: 
Great Violinists of Bell Telephone Hour
R. Wolin  Winter '03
Franz Schubert's Music in Performance 
by David Montgomery
Paul Hersh Winter '04
  Arthur Grumiaux, the EMI Classic Archive Ralph Wolin Summer '04 
Stradivari's Genius by Toby Faber Stefan Hersh Summer '05
Schubert  by Peter Härtling Monica Gruber Fall '05




Workbench

 

 

 

 

Michael Darnton, Luthier

 

Fall '00

 

Restoration

Jeffrey Holmes

Fall '00

 

Photographing Violins

Michael Darnton

Winter '01

 

Antiquing Violins

Garry Vessel

Summer '01

 

Assessing Tonewood with the Lucchi Meter

Julian Hersh

Winter '02 

 

The Lutherie of Andrew Ryan 

 

Summer '02 

The Lutherie of John Young Fall '02
A Question of Style: An Unusual Violin by Poggi Christopher Reuning Winter '03

 

Photgraphing Violins: The Switch to Digital 

Michael Darnton

Spring '03 

A George Gemunder Violin S. Hersh Fall '03
The Care and Preservation of 
Fine String Instruments
Ralph Wolin Winter '04
The Case for Conservation of Fine String Instruments Ralph Wolin Spring '04
Problem Children (the Axelrod Collection) S. Hersh Summer '04
The Work of Alfred Lanini Julian Hersh   Winter '05




Research

 

 

 

 

The Stradivari Workshop

Duane Rosengard

Fall '00

 

Dendrochronology and the Messiah Strad

H. Grissino-Meyer

Fall '01 

  Reading the Messiah Strad Researsh 
with Statistical Analysis
Michael R. Weeks Winter '02
  Vivaldi's Violins, Accounts of the Ospidale  della Pieta Micky White, Charles Beare Summer '02 
   Vivaldi, Maestro di Choro Micky White Fall '02 
Toward a New Understanding of 
Constanze Weber Mozart
Patricia L. C. Chang Spring '03
What We Missed: the Unfinished Mozart Concerti Paul Hersh Spring '03
Ravel, Britten, and War Beeri Moalem Winter '04
The Grosse Fugues Compared Teresa Szu-pei Yu