Encore Orchestral Strings

Encore Orchestral Strings

What We Take To A Gig

Gig. I’ve used that word for as long as I’ve been a musician, and it’s never sounded as odd as when I just went to

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Carbon Fiber

Carbon Fiber – material of the future?

Carbon fiber.  Once a highly esoteric, expensive, cutting edge piece of materials technology, it is now nearly ubiquitous in applications demanding a high strength-to-weight ratio. 

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John’s Cello Heroes

This week we take a break from describing the differences between various items in the shop and focus instead on musicians who inspire us.  Here

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Cases

Let’s Talk About Cases

We’ve been taking a slow tour around the shop, explaining the differences between the instruments first, the bows second, and now the cases.  While I’m

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The differences between bows

This week’s discussion of the differences between bows will feel like a bit of a repeat of last weeks’ discussion of instruments.  In the end,

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Encore Orchestral Strings

(Re) Introducing: Rigo Barrozo

Now that I am settled in to my new position and John has reintroduced himself, I thought it would be a good time to introduce

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