The documentary was on Joshua Bell (www.joshuabell.com), a famous and talented violinist who have a perfect pitch. He won a numerous awards which includes the prestigious Grammy award and the famous Oscar award.
About his story, it was long... and of coz i wont so be free to copy and paste it here.. find out yourself in the website above if ur interested to know more, especially violinist =D
but one of the part interesting on the documentary was when he mentioned about his experience playing inside the underground sub-way station. Actually it was an experiment tho he was told by a journalist. guess what? will a great violinist ever earn $ there? what's the respond? find out urself la...
What i found really interesting here was his violin, a hand made violin from Antonio Stradivari on 1713!!!
omg... the violin which born before the great Mozart!! and it is still here in good condition after 296 years.. truly amazing...
the stradivarius violin is famous for the quality of their sound, which has defied attempts to explain or reproduce.
FYI: one of the stradivarius violin (1707), known as the Hammer was sold on 16 May 2006 worth a world record of US$3,544,000 !! ridiculous? but is true...
Here it is, the Hammer
U would wonder why it is so costly rite?
here's the explanation: the violin was made on 1707, fall in the range between (1700-1720) which known as the 'Golden Period'. With its superb outline and the use of the finest materials, these works are the ones most coveted by collectors and musicians for both their beauty and superior tonal qualities.
So which mean any violin made between those period would be really really costly... now u know why Mr Bell use up all of his saving to own a stradivarius... =)
This is known as the elegance of art
to the one who truly comprehend - a treasure; to the one who think the other way round - a debris.
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extra information about the violin
the wood body: made from a thousand year tree.it grows only in Switzerland and Vienna.the wood is good because the tree reach his 1000year old at the period, it only can produce good quality wood at that particular age.
the string: made out of silk
the weight of violin: as light as feather
the bottom of the bow(the white thing, I dunno what's that call): made out of real Ivory.
the bow string: made out from middle-aged horse tail
no one can produce the same quality violin as Antonio Stradivarius because his craft skills.No one inherited the the skills.A good violin depends on a craft man's skills, not the material.
There's only 10 Stradivarius violins in this world.three sold sold,one in museum, six in auction(in US dollar).current minimum price...$8 million above.
Someone please go buy.haha
GONG XI FA CAI!!!
huh?! 8 million!! as like as a feather?? possible to be that light??!! but its damn intresting here..
just a few notes about violin:
strings are always changed, possibily once in a month, or whenever necessary, which is now made by numerous different materials...
yes, good violin will have weight as light as feather...
bottom of the bow called frog, which can be made of ivory, tortoise shell, fish bone or others, now banned, so only synthetic material..
it's called hair of the bow...
there is always controversial view whether Stradivarius is the best, but certainly one of the most famous, there are others like Guarnerius del Gesu, Guadagnini which are also famous good, with different charateristic, differnet violinist perfer different one...
good violin do depend on the material as well, among others...red violin by Stradivarius is famous because of special unique varnish (paint on the violin)....
there are recorded about thousands of violins he made, but 700 plus which are still in playable condition...about 100 to 200 are remain in good condition...
violin price depends largely on the maker, and also on the famous violinist who played on it before....for instance, if someone like joshua bell play it before, the violin price will go up even high in the future compared to others who never owned by famous musician before....
choosing violin is really like choosing the spouse, you will get the one which you like the most, not necessarily the most expensive or so called 'the best' by someone....it is really an invidualised thingy....
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