The cello in the image above IS NOT the instrument featured in this the video below. While similar, it is a later instrument housed in Musical Instrument Bank of the Canada Council for the Arts.
With apologies, no pre-US Midterm election claptrap today. No Alberta politics. No AI grumbles. Today, something quite different, very much in sympathy with the origins of this blog: Music, instrumental music in fact, and a focus on the instruments which in the right hands and hearts create beautiful music. Enter the Cello. The video is here; and a rough transcript is below. Savour, and enjoy.
TRANSCRIPT
All right. Hello, everybody. Welcome in our workshop.
Discover with us this wonderful cello, which we just opened. It’s a wonderful. It’s a wonderful Grancino cello that we have to start to restore. Wonderful instrument!
Oh my God! Look, it’s been restored during the years. Even here’s the date, 1850. It’s been restored at that time.
Inside the instrument, we have . . . a wonderful label, as you can see, under the dust, of course, from Antonio Grancino, 1699. It’s an original label from probably Grancino’s son, who was collaborating with father in the workshop.
All these things we have to discover; we have to work on it. But we are excited to start this restoring work. The table is made from a beautiful wood, beautiful grain of wood, and we did a dendrology (study of wood/trees) on it. And it’s early; it’s 1672, 1678. So that’s the time that the early Milanese makers were very, very busy and made this fantastic instrument. So we’re happy to work on that.
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