Go back to article: The Art and Science of Acoustic Recording: Re-enacting Arthur Nikisch and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra’s landmark 1913 recording of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony

Figure 5

Black and white photograph of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra with their instruments in a Gramophone recording studio with a close up of the horn of a stroh violin

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The close-up on the right clearly shows the horn of a Stroh violin (or viola) and the neck and scroll of the instrument

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15180/150302/011