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In Reply to: My daughter's violin... posted by real_jj on June 21, 2006 at 13:52:59:
Yeah the strad that she was playing could really pressurize a room! However, this is exactly what you want if you are playing a concerto in a relatively big hall. The tone is also exquisite. I guess its like everything else...power corrupts :)!Late last year she did a series of four concerts (Zürich, Basel, Geneva, and Lugano) where she played the 24 Paganini Caprices using this violin. In Zürich Tonhalle, it was necessary to have an instrument that could project sound like that. With smaller chamber concerts I can imagine that it could be too much of a good thing.
Interestingly, she is now playing on an old Italian Kappa (from around 1690) that is about 10% smaller in size but about 50% smaller in sound power. Still, it has a beautiful tone and works well with chamber stuff but she she said it was lacking in power for concertos (she used it recently for Wieniawski concerto in a concert in Germany). Unfortunately, all of these violins are WAY beyond mine or her means at the time being to afford. I am lucky though to be able to get exposure to such amazing instruments to see what all the hoopla is about. We also had a cheap (like 1000 euro) modern violin from Romania in the apartment (a friend was importing and selling them in Switzerland). It sounded like a hollow box of wood, not a musical instrument! Shockingly bad by comparison.
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