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[edit] 3-string legend

Hi! I just wanted to know if someone can confirm this anecdote taken from an ophthalmologic book from Dr. Fernando Pellegrino: On November 18, 1994 Perlman gave a concert in the Lincoln Center in New York. Just at the beggining one of his violin´s strings broke, and instead of standing up and pick a new string (which would have took him severeal minutes due to his reduced mobility), he asked the band to start again and he continued the concert playing only with three strings (presumably re-composing parts of the piece in order to fit the three stringed violin). This may be quite exaggerated and the fact that the book from wich was taken is about a subject so distant to Music or even History makes me reticent to post it in the main article. Best Regards --Javier Jelovcan 18:18, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

-It's not totally implausible, although I can't vouch for the validity of the story. Paganini is rumored to have, on some occasions, filed his strings down near the bridge, so that during a concert, when hit hard enough, they would break. He would systematically break the top three strings and continue playing the entire piece on the G string. Perlman isn't, of course, as skilled as Paganini, but I have no doubt that he is skilled enough to play with only one string gone. Of course, it does depend on what pieces he was playing. Any piece that required him to go reasonably high on the E string (assuming that's the one that was broken) would have been technically impossible to perform without that string. It's possible to play very high pitches on the A string, but not the extent the E can offer.

Sorry Javier, the story is almost certainly an urban legend: See this article on Snopes.com Kla'quot ^Sound 18:17, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

I confirmed through a personal friend of Perlman that this story is not true. I have no doubt that Perlman can pull off such stunt if he wants to, though. Fred Hsu 18:41, 23 September 2006 (UTC)