BUNDLE – The Best of Trade Secrets 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5
Bundle contains:
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1 x The Best of Trade Secrets
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1 x The Best of Trade Secrets 2
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1 x The Best of Trade Secrets 3
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1 x The Best of Trade Secrets 4
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1 x The Best of Trade Secrets 5
The Strad Directory 2021
Newly published for 2021, the latest edition of The Strad Directory is as indispensable as ever remaining an essential and ever-popular resource for the string world. It provides you with everything you need to fulfil your stringed instrument needs.
The Best of Trade Secrets 5
Necks, scrolls, f-holes, arching, edgework, inlay, tools, set-up – this new compilation covers more topics than ever before.
BUNDLE – In Focus and In Focus 2
The In Focus anthologies brings together many of the world’s most fascinating stringed instruments, with commentaries by today’s top instrument experts.
Both books feature exceptional high-quality photographs for every featured instrument – front, back and scroll – and will provide inspiration for today’s makers and anyone who enjoys the beauty and variety of stringed instruments.
This bundle includes:
- In Focus (with new limited edition cover)
- In Focus 2
In Focus 2
The Strad ’s second compilation of fascinating articles, written within the last 5 years, brings together fine instruments by some of the world’s greatest instrument experts. In this new anthology, every instrument has been given three pages to include more close-up photographs, archings, angles and tiny details.
The Strad Directory 2020
Newly published for 2020, the latest edition of The Strad Directory is as indispensable as ever remaining an essential and ever-popular resource for the string world. It provides you with everything you need to fulfil your stringed instrument needs.
The Best of Technique
In The Best of Technique you’ll discover the top playing tips of the world’s leading string players and teachers. It’s packed full of exercises for students, plus examples from the standard repertoire to show you how to integrate the technique into your playing.
Rostropovich: A Celebration
Discover the man behind the legend, from interviews with the renowned cellist and the people who knew him.
Cello Heroes
Steven Isserlis, Ralph Kirshbaum, Mischa Maisky and Natalia Gutman are among the cellists featured in this special publication from The
The Strad Masterclass: Solo Violin
James Ehnes, Hilary Hahn, Leonidas Kavakos, Maxim Vengerov, Nikolaj Znaider: some of the violin world's top names have given their thoughts on key works of string repertoire within The Strad's pages. Now, for the first time, Masterclass: Solo Violin brings together articles from the magazine's popular Masterclass section over the past nine years.
The Strad Masterclass: Solo Cello
Alban Gerhardt, Bonnie Hampton, Gary Hoffman, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Jan Vogler: some of the cello world’s top names have given their
An A-Z of Instrument Care by Jane Dorner (2nd Edition)
A first-aid manual and good-health guide for your most precious possession. This essential book for players of the violin family
The Strad Directory 2019
Newly published, the current edition of The Strad Directory is as indispensable as ever. It provides you with everything you
Violin Varnish
Notes and articles from the workshop of Koen Padding. Edited by Helen Michetschläger.
The Best of Trade Secrets 4
The latest collection of articles from The Strad’s popular Trade Secrets section brings together methods for everything from reinforcing a cello neck
In Focus
For a limited time only, The Strad is issuing the first in the In Focus series with a beautiful, new limited edition cover.
This collection of articles from The Strad’s long-running In Focus series brings together more than 80 fascinating stringed instruments, with commentaries by some of today’s top instrument experts.
Makers include Antonio Stradivari, Guarneri ‘del Gesù’ and G.B. Guadagnini, but also lesser-known masters such as Paul Knorr, Dante Baldoni, Charles Nicolas Altermatt and many others. This makes it an essential resource for anyone seeking to extend their lutherie knowledge into areas and makers whose work is more rare, and a significant addition to the lutherie literature.
In Focus features exceptional high-quality photographs for every featured instrument – front, back and scroll – this book will provide inspiration for today’s makers and anyone who enjoys the beauty and variety of stringed instruments.
Great Instruments
Every generation of violin makers has sought to analyse and understand the classic forms, and, for the past 122 years,
The Best of Trade Secrets 3
Written by luthiers for luthiers, this third compilation of articles from The Strad’s popular Trade Secrets section brings together over
The Best of Trade Secrets 2
Following the huge success of the first volume of The Best of Trade Secrets, the second appeared in 2012. Like
The Best of Trade Secrets
Ever since its beginnings in 2006, Trade Secrets has been The Strad’s most popular section for instrument makers. Luthiers from
Violin Heroes
Nine of today’s top violinists, including Itzhak Perlman, Joshua Bell, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Maxim Vengerov and Nikolaj Znaider, talk about the
The Strad Directory 2018
It provides you with everything you need to fulfil your stringed instrument needs, from makers and repairers to dealers, wholesalers
The Strad Directory 2017
Newly published, the current edition of The Strad Directory is as indispensable as ever. It provides you with everything you
Great Instruments 2
Great Instruments II presents a second selection, with in-depth studies of instruments and their histories, plus a basic ‘bluffer’s guide’ to identifying an instrument’s date, region and even its maker.