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"The Violin
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"The
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"Recipe for Success." [Chemical
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"A Proposal for the Conservation of
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Review of Joel Speerstra, Bach
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"An Eye for Detail." [Biography of
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"The Hill Bass Bar Collection."
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Review of
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“Softly, Softly.”
[Interview with
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Review of
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Review of
The Violin of David Oistrakh:
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"Antonio Stradivari and the Baroque
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"The Gatti-Kraus Piano Action
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"The Claviorgan by Lorenz Hauslaib,
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“Messiah Redux.” Journal of the
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"The Messie: A Panel Discussion."
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Fifteen catalog entries in The
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"5000 Instruments, One Conservator:
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"The Man Behind the Bows:
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"Early Alterations Made to Ruckers,
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"Interview with Daniel Phillips."
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"Chasing the Authentic Sound."
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“An Upright Pianoforte by Domenico
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"Early Nineteenth-Century German
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Review of
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The Strad vol. 99, no. 1183
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Review of
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"Young Master." (Profile of the bow
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"The House that Jack Built."
[Profile of the violin dealer Jacques Français and a discussion of
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"Historic Lute and Violin Varnish
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"Violins on View." [Preview of the
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"Cremonese Reincarnation."
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"Prodigious Celebration."
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Review of
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Review of
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"Gottfried Silbermann's Pianos."
The Organ Yearbook vol. 17 (1986): 103-21.
"Travelling Apprenticeship."
[An
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The Strad vol. 97, no.1160 (December, 1986): 559-64.
“Fine Tuning.” [An interview with Jascha Heifetz’s lifelong luthier, Benjamin Koodlach.] The Strad
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“Morel Responsibility.”
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"First Class." [Profile
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"Knotty Problems." [Profile of the
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"The Early Portuguese Piano."
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