From Liszt to Hendrix: the love affair of musicians and their instruments | Tom Service

Violinists may not be able to recognise a Stradivari, but the mystical relationship between man and instrument is strongIt's a critical commonplace to say, when a performance has touched the heights of instrumental brilliance, that the performer and their instrument seemed as one – as if there were no gap between the physicality of the player's body and the wood, wire, gut, metal, and even electronics of their instruments. However, recent research may pour some cold water on this human-instrum...

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