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This is Love

The Town That Stayed Quiet

This is Love

Vox Media Podcast Network

Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.79.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2019

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

We visit a city in Northern Italy where everyone decided to stay quiet to save something beautiful. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sign up for our occasional newsletter, The Accomplice. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2BmMZr5 We also make Criminal and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop.  Episode transcripts are posted on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Support for this show comes from Krakan.

0:03.0

Krypto is like the financial system, but different.

0:07.0

It doesn't care where you come from, what you look like, your credit score,

0:11.0

or your outrageous food delivery habits.

0:13.7

crypto is finance for everyone everywhere all the time.

0:18.4

Krakhan, see what crypto can be.

0:21.3

Don't invest unless you're prepared to lose all the money you invest.

0:25.0

This is a high-risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong. What does a violin sound like?

0:35.0

What the violin sounds like a violin.

0:38.0

He has something special in the way that sort of penetrates in your body and gets to your soul.

0:47.0

It's very emotional, it makes it very emotional. It makes it very emotional.

0:57.0

There's a wooden chamber that sits in the middle of a large room,

1:01.0

a room in the middle of a noisy building, in the middle of a large room, a room in the middle of a noisy building in the middle of a city.

1:06.8

There seems to be an understanding that this room has something special inside.

1:12.2

People wait their turns quietly to go in. When you enter

1:16.8

the chamber it's empty and pitch black, but then it fills with this music.

1:24.0

Outside of the chamber,

1:27.0

violins are everywhere. Real violence, pictures of violins, pieces of violins. The people

1:39.2

here protect some of the most precious instruments in the world. Instruments made hundreds

1:46.2

of years ago, carved by hand by the world's earliest violin makers. And they did it here in a city in northern Italy, Cremona.

1:57.0

Cremona, I mean everyone knows, is the place where the story of violin making began.

2:06.0

This is Virginia Vila.

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