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Pauline Harding asks string players across the country how things could change<\/li>\n<li><strong>MAKING COPIES<\/strong> Sam Zygmuntowicz examines whether replicas of the \u2018Titian\u2019 and \u2018Willemotte\u2019 Stradivaris, and the \u2018Plowden\u2019 \u2018del Ges\u00f9\u2019, will show similar tone properties<\/li>\n<li><strong>SESSION REPORT<\/strong> Fabio Biondi tells Rita Fernandes why his new recording of the Bach Sonatas and Partitas brings a uniquely personal interpretation to the repertoire stalwarts<\/li>\n<li><strong>BAY AREA BOW MAKERS<\/strong> The early 20th century saw a musical boom in the area around San Francisco \u2013 and bow makers reaped the benefit. Raphael Gold examines their history<\/li>\n<li><strong>SCOTTISH FOLK BAROQUE FUSION<\/strong> Kevin MacDonald explores the trend of combining Scots folk melodies and Italian art music, and how it grew fashionable in 18th-century drawing rooms<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Regulars:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>IN FOCUS<\/strong> A 1926 violin by John Friedrich<\/li>\n<li><strong>TRADE SECRETS<\/strong> Bow maker Eric Lane shows how to make a cutter for a Parisian-eye ring<\/li>\n<li><strong>MY SPACE<\/strong> Miami-based luthier Giancarlo Arcieri<\/li>\n<li><strong>MAKING MATTERS<\/strong> How luthiers can help musicians who have trouble playing 5ths<\/li>\n<li><strong>MASTERCLASS<\/strong> Violist Richard O\u2019Neill of the Tak\u00e1cs Quartet on Brahms\u2019s String Quartet no.3<\/li>\n<li><strong>TECHNIQUE<\/strong> Cellist Denis Severin gives hints and tips for practising on open strings<\/li>\n<li><strong>LIFE LESSONS<\/strong> With double bassist Gary Karr<\/li>\n<li><strong>OPINION<\/strong> Julian Lloyd Webber argues against the standard repertoire choices for audition<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We talk to US violinist Chad Hoopes, test the tone quality of Stradivaris, learn Gary Karr\u2019s Life Lessons and report on the early bow makers of the Bay Area in an America-themed issue. 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