Cello travel tips

The cello, as every cellist is hopefully aware, is a delicate instrument. Made of thin, warped pieces of fine wood, and held together by a combination of glue and simple friction, they are carefully constructed artefacts. Because of this, the careful balance that keeps a cello intact and intune is quite easy to disturb. This can be through clumsy damage, lack of care in upkeep, or a volatile environment. In this article we’ll focus on the latter; the current heatwave in the UK has seen a dramatic rise in tuning issues among my students, and so this topic is now more [...]