Carbon-cello inventor dies, at 89

The Boston Symphony cellist Luis Leguia had a eureka moment while out sailing on his catamaran. Seeing the new fibreglass materials used in making seaworthy vessels, he wondered if they could not be applied to creating a cello that sounded like a Strad.

He made a prototype in 1990. The another. The third one was successful. He started a business.

Leguia, who played 44 years in the Boston Symphhony from 1963 to 2007, gave the Boston premiere of Arnold Schoenberg’s Cello Concerto and enjoyed an international solo career alongside his orchestral job.

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