Each issue of Stringendo contains news, reviews, letters, comments and several substantial articles on topics of interest to players, teachers and makers of stringed instruments.
Efforts are made to reflect the wide range of interests of our members and to bring us into contact with our international colleagues. We believe that we help shrink the distance between Australians living in remote areas. A portion of membership subscriptions is allocated to funding Stringendo.

THEME: Our theme for Stringendo for the whole of the year will be AUSTA itself, so if you have funny stories, fabulous photos or great memories of AUSTA events or personalities, please send them in.
If you are turning 50, if you have been a member for 50 years, if 50 is a significant number in your life, we would like to hear from you, either an article or an interview. What AUSTA means to you, how it has affected you, how it has changed you – we want to read about it!

Articles for the next edition are due 31 July 2025.

Guidelines for Contributors:

AUSTA Publications

Responsibility for production of AUSTA national publications rests with the National Editorial Board. The Board produces two journal editions of Stringendo each calendar year, containing a mixture of contributed material, invited articles, news, reviews and short commentaries. The Board welcomes contributions from its readers, but inclusion of material in its publications is the sole prerogative of the Editor. Please note the following guidelines.

Contributions
All contributions should be sent to the National Editor.

Types of contributions sought:

1. Information and brief news items
2. Major articles likely to be of interest to members (1350 words)
3. Scholarly articles (2000 words)
4. Reviews/reports of conferences, seminars, workshops, etc., offering thoughtful and reflective accounts of personal experiences (700 words)
5. Reviews of new string music, publications, recordings and concerts
6. Viewpoints expressing personal opinion (max. 550 words)

• Authors of major articles must provide an electronic copy in Word format by email to the Editor: stringendo@austa.asn.au.
• Authors should include a two-sentence biography of themselves.
• Articles should be in straightforward, concise English.
• Photographs, musical examples and other illustrated material must be sharply in focus and may be submitted in colour or black and white sent electronically as a tif, jpg or pdf file.
• Permission and sources for all images have been sought and acknowledged where possible. If the copyright owner is known but identified in the magazine, please contact the Editor immediately.
• Copyright belongs to the author. However, the Editor reserves the right to first publication of any written material. The Editor reserves the right to edit submissions in the interests of clarity and available space.
• No material will be returned to the contributor, whether published or not.
• For further information, please contact the National Editor – stringendo@austa.asn.au