Joe Bein is the son of the late Robert Bein, who in 1976 founded the well-known violin shopBein & Fushiwith the late Geoffrey Fushi. The downtown Chicago shop deals in high-end fine violins and stringed instruments and has had many famous clients such as Ruggiero Ricci, Yo-Yo Ma, Itzh...
Inpart 2Julian Hersh examines the c. 1730 ‘Vaslin Composite’ Stradivari cello, an example of the ‘forma B piccola’ model. Julian Hersh is a cellist, expert and co-founder of Darnton & Hersh Fine Violins in Chicago. Notes [1] Ernest Doring,How Many Strads?, reprint by Bein & Fushi,...
This is an absolute must for fiddle fanciers, while more general music lovers will learn as they listen.~JOHN VON RHEIN, Chicago Tribune. It's hard to imagine that the case for Stradivari and Guarneri could be more powerfully stated in words, pictures, or recorded sound-or to imagine that...