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The "music" ruins this video. Music of the period (18th, early 19th centuries) can be quite pleasing even to a "rocker" in small doses. The frantic pace of this audio is entirely inconsistent with the slow, painstaking process of building a fine model.

Well "Huzzay!" three times three to you, cap'n. What a project! Back in my own RC days (planes that crashed, sloops that sailed by the lee more often than not), I sometimes dreamed of building a square-rigger like HMS Surprise but never attempted it... stuck with static models only. Great job! A ...

I gave your performance a "like" for its uniqueness. Playing almost the entire piece over the f hole is very pleasing by contrast to other renditions, but by the same token it's somewhat overdone. I think a combination of several right-hand positions would have been better, but that's certainly a...

Dude, you seriously need to get a life. Preposterous doesn't begin to describe this video.

A ptichpole can ruin your whole day. I don't envy the poor sod who fell through the wing sail. Those things are expensive!

Finally figured it out. It's a basso ukulele! Eat your heart out, Arthur Godfrey! :-)

Wonderful, and GREAT carmera work under really difficult conditions. (I'm a cat guy, and cats play just the same way.) Too cute, and thanks!

Magnificient, as always.

VERY nicely done! Excellent balance among b-flats, alto and bass, nice and brisk, and the lead b-flat was outstanding. Bravo!

Casella's work does litle to disguise the fact that Paganini was such a showoff! But I think Ms. Hahn would have kept up with -or even exceeded- that master's skills. As usual, her attention to tonality and voicing departs from the usual "norms", and should be judged from the standpoint of creati...

Ms. Hahn presents a most unusual interpretation of this magnificent piece. Aside from a few renderings played by artists struggling with the technical challenges of it, I've never heard it played at such a tempo... almost dirge-like. But the pace is more than worth it, since she's able to give fu...