Making violin from tsunami debris

Making violin from tsunami debris

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Feb. 21, 2012, in Tokyo shows Muneyuki Nakazawa, a violin maker known globally for restoration and appraisal of Stradivarius and other rare instruments, making a violin from wooden debris from the March 11 earthquake and tsunami found in the city of Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture. A project is under way to have 1,000 violinists from around the world play at various venues in Japan and abroad with violins made from such debris, with the first performance to be given by Ivry Gitlis, an Israeli-born violinist, at a first-anniversary ceremony in Rikuzentakata on March 11. (Kyodo)

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