The Rise and Fall of Instruments

Soundcheck | May 3, 2010
The ukulele is up, the pipe organ is down. So what moves the market of musical instruments? We'll find out what brings certain strings and drums into fashion and what condemns others to obscurity. Also, the life and the controversy behind Stradivari’s violins. And: the hip and young Calder String Quartet.

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