Monday, March 22, 2010

Amazing fiddle tales


The Chicago Tribune's William Mullen reports on a couple of violin makers who took the "Vieuxtemps" Guarneri del Gesu (1741), considered by some to be the greatest fiddle ever made, to Northwestern University Hospital for a CT scan, hoping to find out what makes it great:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/ct-talk-ct-scan-violin-20100318,0,302433.story

* * *

Minnesota Orchestra violinist Roger Frisch played his instrument while undergoing brain surgery to ease tremors in his right hand, ABC News reports (with video):

http://abcnews.go.com/WN/WorldNews/cutting-edge-treating-tremors-deep-brain-stimulation/story?id=10138705