Instrument Craftsmanship Quotes

The cello is like a beautiful woman who has not grown older, but younger with time, more slender, more supple, more graceful.

The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry.

A piano is a machine, but you've got ivory and there's weight behind the keys and you have this really - you feel the resonance in the instrument, you feel the vibration in the pedal. I mean, these a still very crude.

I'm working on guitars for free, because I love working on guitars anyway.

We developed our own type of Igudesman and Joo electric violin, let's say, and funny enough, the shape of it was developed by the head technician of Steinway. It's actually an electric violin, which is made from the stick that holds up the piano lid.

The Violin of my dreams. If you wanna play a pianissimo that is almost inaudible and yet it carries through a hall that seats 3,000 people, there's your Strad.

Antonio Stradivari of Cremona, Italy, made about 1,200 violins, half of which still survive. After his death in 1737, factories churned out hundreds of thousands of copies. And every day, people bring violins with Stradivarius labels to appraisers, thinking they have bought the genuine article for a song.

I wanted to be a violin-maker like my dad, and then I wanted to be a doorman in my building.