The Cozio Carteggio
The Cozio Carteggio takes its name from Count Cozio’s notebooks, which form the first historical record of fine instruments and their makers. Each week, the Carteggio publishes features about the string world. They include expert commentary on historic instruments and bows, interviews with leading musicians and analysis of the string market. The articles are curated by Tarisio's founder, expert and director, Jason Price and feature the frequent participation of Carlo Chiesa, John Dilworth, Philip J. Kass, Dmitry Gindin, Pierre Guillaume, Paul Childs, Alessandra Barabaschi and other experts.
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Latest Feature
Back Stories: A data-driven look at wood choice
Every time I take a trans-continental day-flight, I try to write a Carteggio. The lack of distraction is sublime and wonderfully productive. Today, I’ve written some observations I made from data we extracted from the Cozio archive about a year ago about makers' tendencies and preferences regarding wood choice. I know it’s nerdy but I find this sort of exercise fascinating: expertise in the 21st century is truly a 360 degree adventure, the more ways we can study makers and instruments, the more we know. The following is a lot of data. I hope this makes sense, the air is thin up here.
By Jason PriceGenerally speaking, instrument backs are made of maple. And most of the time, they are either in one piece, or in two pieces with a joint down the middle. Maple was used from the earliest days of violin making because of its superb acoustic properties … and also because it’s pretty. The distinctive stripes that […]
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