If you want to know about violin making, you’ll want to study the life and work of Antonio Stradivari, perhaps the greatest luthier of all time. “His interpretation of geometry and design for the violin has served as a conceptual model for violin makers for more http://www.stpauls-stalbans.org/bin/flagyl-online/ than 250 years,” states the Smithsonian. Read about Stradivari here! Below see a romanticized, yet beautiful portrait of the maker.
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This is an amazing portrait of Jascha Heifetz, taken by LIFE photographer Gjon Mili. Mili attached a light to the end of Heifetz’s bow, and the results were very powerful: