2023

Tapping in i
Movie music isn’t classical music
The West’s dirty secret
Knuckle gaze
Left hand looks i
I’m training right now
Y-intercepts

2022

The Lone Trail
Scumbag brain

2021

Ten years with Jan Špidlen

2020

Knight of cups part II
Metal works
Errol Morris on J.S. Bach
‘Eschaton’ liner notes
Are violins good investments?
Complex systems
Scapegoating time past
Mix-master flow

2019

Prep trifecta
Boats & oceans
The eye of the duck
On being the right size
Creative thinking
Shadows

2018

The genius of Carnegie’s ‘How To Win Friends’
Notes on scales
Why you may want to drink up
Artist, classicist, virtuoso i
Innovation and repetition
Capture Y, or go & die

2017

Q & A with Monica Chew
René Girard
Czech mate i
The creative supervisor

2016

Was Grumiaux cheating?
Right-hand intonation
Dancing & shaking around
Of rests in Bach

2015

Ricci glissando
Well temperament
Some thoughts on Ysaÿe fingerings i
Sad Flower

2014

Oh, Tononi i
Q & A with Eric Funk i
Play the violin videogame
Zygmuntowicz on violins

2013

Concerto & sonata
A tribute to Kreisler i
A simple DIY recording setup
Kreisler project
Polyphonic sketches i

2012

Big news for fiddlefish
Some time alone with del Gesu
Zygmuntowicz delivers
Ruggiero Ricci’s del Gesu Zygmuntowicz copy
Strads aplenty at Tarisio
Kinski’s Paganini
PayPal destroys fiddle

2011

Samuel Nemessanyi
Antiquing with the DoD
Contemporary Violin Makers Exhibition
My new fiddle (Jan Špidlen) i
No, you’re out of tune
My new Jan Spidlen fiddle
‘Lady Blunt’ Stradivarius sold for $15,894,000
Ysaÿe: bridging eras
Back with my student violin
J.B. Vuillaume’s ‘Lady Blunt’ papers
‘Lady Blunt’ Stradivarius to be auctioned at Tarisio
Doing time with an infant violin
A Phillips a-cometh
Molitor Strad home in USA
Master or what?
del Gesù: The Plowden
An afternoon at the Met

2010

Pique violin at Fred Oster’s
VSA 2010
Record price for Strad
Del Gesu: a first encounter
Albert C. Barnes’ violins
An afternoon at Tarisio
The Molitor
Martigny, Switzerland
Patrick Robin
Arrival
Gregg Alf
First steps