A former band member for Shiela E., the artist who formerly worked with Prince, Mr. La Roc plays his custom-made Lucite electric violin near the Long Island Rail Road.
As we saw back in Hero, Jimmy's a natural born grifter ("Hey everybody, next round's on us!"), and soon it's time for a montage as Jimmy and Marco zip through a selection of classic cons involving Irish sweepstakes, African princes, rare violins, customs officers, black ink on "out of circulation" dollar bills, pretending to be Kevin Costner and so on.
For professional violin players, a custom instrument at that price is a bargain".
And then I use these custom pedals that turn the violin into almost an African imbura…kind of a percussive, filtered sound.
It will open with Atoui's own composition, based on a traditional set of Egyptian violin solos filtered through his custom-made electronic contraptions and interrupted by a variety of samples of film and ambient sound.
Started in 1881 as a social service program to teach skills to immigrants, the school now specializes in promoting Old World crafts like violin making, piano repair and custom-furniture making.
Not only does she play violin, but she works hard using the custom made bow that attaches to her small arm.
A luthier may custom build a variety of stringed instruments spanning from violins and violas to mandolins and guitars.
Distinguished Strauss interpreters include Willi Boskovsky, who carried on the tradition of conducting with violin in hand, as was the Strauss family custom, as well as Herbert von Karajan, Carlos Kleiber, Lorin Maazel, Zubin Mehta and Riccardo Muti.
A press release points out that the custom-made instrument didn't quite reach the bidding levels of a Stradivarius violin made during Antonio Stradivari's "golden period" that sold for more than $3.5 million, but reminds that the Berkshire Hathaway CEO auctioned it strictly for charity.
