Meet Gerald Gaul

Gerald Gaul is the Vice-Chairman of the National Music Museum in Vermillion, South Dakota. He has been a violinist and a violist for half a century and is currently a violist with the Space Coast Symphony Orchestra and the World Doctor’s Orchestra. 

Gaul has a BA in viola performance from New College of the University of South Florida and a Master’s degree in violin performance from the University of North Dakota. For the last twenty years, he has studied violin bows of the classical period. When not otherwise engaged, he searches for the missing Strad.

​Featuring:
The Missing Strad

"Lovers of classical music and forensic detective stories will eat it up.
An entertaining ramble through a golden age of violin-playing and violin-faking."
​- KIRKUS REVIEWS​

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