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Slowly, as he watched his violin take shape, Lars' thoughts
turned to Stradivarius and his violins, and it came back to
him that Stradivarius' creations often had their own
individual names connected with birds. Once the stone violin
was polished gleaming black, the name was obvious: it had to
be Blackbird! A bit pretentious, perhaps: the blackbird is
the most beautiful of songsters. But still. And since the
blackbird's bill is yellow, the perfect solution was of
course a bridge of the yellowest ivory that could be found:
mammoth! This also saved the artist from clashing with
nature conservancy interests, concerned about the threat to
the elephant.
After many trials and tribulations, contact was
established with a Russian artist, who in his turn had the
right contacts in the interior Siberia, way out on the taiga
and deep in the permafrost. A suitable piece was obtained
and dispatched to Lars' studio in Medelpad, Sweden. It was
an exciting moment when the bridge - cut with a fret-saw -
was fitted and the strings tightened. The first notes
sounded, Lars felt a frisson run through him and the black
stone violin trembled into life.
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