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The following extract is from The Strad’s May issue cover feature celebrating cellist Julian Lloyd Webber’s career.
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Having moved on from his first full-size cello, a Joseph Hill, Lloyd Webber was by now playing an instrument by renowned French luthier Paul Bailly, of which he was particularly fond. However, as he began to get more solo engagements, the time came to find something more sophisticated, and through J.&A. Beare he managed to obtain a 1690 cello – a possible Giovanni Grancino. This was in January 1974, yet despite having high hopes for the instrument, on which he made several early recordings, he now candidly admits he was never that happy with it: ‘On paper, it should have been a match made in heaven, but to be completely honest, now that my playing days are over, all I can remember about my time with the Gra
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