Giuseppe Giovanni Battista Guarneri, also known as ‘filius Andrea,’ was the second son of Andrea Guarneri. He assisted his father for nearly twenty years and, upon his father’s death in 1698, inherited his father’s workshop. While his reputation as a maker is overshadowed by other family members, and by his contemporary, Stradivari, Giuseppe still managed …
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The Nürnberger family workshop in Markneukirchen produced a large output of high-quality bows from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries. Although the bows were made by multiple family members, many of them bear the label “Albert Nürnberger,” created when Franz Albert Nürnberger II (1854-1931) formalized the family brand. While already a part of an …
Jacob Eury, sometimes mistakenly known as Nicolas Eury, was born in Mirecourt and began his training as a violin-maker under his father, François. However, Eury quickly shifted to bow-making. His burgeoning career was interrupted by the Napoleonic Wars, but after he returned from military service, Eury may have apprenticed under Jean “Grand” Adam. Eury moved …
What is the Range of the Cello? The cello’s full range of more than four octaves gives it one of the most expansive ranges of any instrument you can play. At the bottom, the deep bass tones of its C string sit two octaves below middle C. The middle two strings of the cello, …
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