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LISTEN | 'It is stunningly beautiful': Indigenous violin stuns the world
For the first time a classical violin has been made using only African woods. And, writes Claire Keeton, once the lockdown allows the instrument will be played in a concert
07 March 2021 - 00:00
There is always something new out of Africa and, it appears, something beautiful out of lockdown. Africa’s first classical violin made purely out of indigenous woods, with magnificent tone, was unveiled in June 2020, and a Cape Town luthier is assembling a second this weekend...
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