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Tom Martin, George Martin and Martin Lawrence examine them in detail<\/li>\n<li><strong>BOTTESINI&#8217;S 200TH ANNIVERSARY<\/strong>\u00a0 Stephen Street celebrates the career of possibly the most influential double bassist in history, regarded in his time as \u2018the Paganini of the double bass\u2019<\/li>\n<li><strong>ABEL SELAOCOE<\/strong>\u00a0 The Manchester-based cellist, composer and vocalist tells Tom Stewart how his\u00a0genre-defying compositions are informed by his South African heritage<\/li>\n<li><strong>WOOD TREATMENT<\/strong>\u00a0 Wenjie Cai and Hwan-Ching Tai reveal how the Cremonese maters treated the spruce used in their instruments, possibly based on alchemical principles<\/li>\n<li><strong>HEIFETZ AS TEACHER<\/strong> Ayke Agus, the legendary violinist\u2019s long-time accompanist and assistant, recalls his demanding style of teaching, in conversation with Enrico Alvares<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Regulars<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>IN FOCUS<\/strong> An 1807 violin by William Ferguson<\/li>\n<li><strong>TRADE SECRETS<\/strong> Making an \u2018invisible\u2019 neck graft<\/li>\n<li><strong>MY SPACE<\/strong> Double bass maker Jurgen Preyer<\/li>\n<li><strong>MAKING MATTERS<\/strong> Carlo Chiesa investigates a notorious case of forgery from the 1920s<\/li>\n<li><strong>MASTERCLASS<\/strong> Cellist Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt on playing short pieces with conviction<\/li>\n<li><strong>LIFE LESSONS<\/strong> With cellist Amit Peled<\/li>\n<li><strong>OPINION<\/strong> Finding the \u2018game rules\u2019 for playing<\/li>\n<li><strong>POSTCARD FROM DUBAI<\/strong> The inaugural InClassica International Music Festival<\/li>\n<li><strong>POSTCARD FROM MONDSEE<\/strong> Report from the annual Musiktage Mondsee concert series<\/li>\n<li><strong>FROM THE ARCHIVE<\/strong> Violinist Tossy Spivakovsky\u2019s tips on bowing, from 1951<\/li>\n<li><strong>SENTIMENTAL WORK<\/strong> Arnold Steinhardt waxes lyrical on his love for Schubert\u2019s Fantasy op.15<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We examine the Venetian double bass and meet genre-defying cellist Abel Selaocoe. There\u2019s a tribute to Bottesini and a look at Jascha Heifetz\u2019s teaching methods. 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