The most famous violoncello of the Venetian liutaio Domenico Montagnana is called the Sleeping Beauty (La bella adormmentata). Our beauty, the Cristiani, has been sleeping comfortably in its plush, ...

Rostropovich playing the violoncello on the crumbling Berlin Wall; Rostropovich sitting next to Boris Yeltsin in the White House in Moscow; Rostropovich with Solzhenitsyn at the dacha - these ...

This violoncello was made Luigi Rovatti in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1915. It is made of a two-piece table of spruce, two-piece back of maple with even fine descending figure, ribs of similar maple, ...

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This violoncello was made by John Preston in London, about 1780. It is made of a two-piece table of spruce, two piece back of maple with even fine descending figure, ribs of similar maple, neck, ...

CAN any of your readers explain the reason of the unpleasant jarring noise which is sometimes found in certain notes of the violoncello, termed by musicians the wolf?