Talk:Valentin Berlinsky

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Did you know... that Russian cellist Valentin Berlinsky played for the Borodin Quartet for 60 years, the longest-serving member of what was described as "the longest continuously playing" string quartet in the world?

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Fraudulent claim[edit]

He was the only Quartet member to have played in it from the beginning.

Clearly, that is not so. The original cellist was Rostropovich, whom Berlinsky replaced "after a few weeks". So, he was there almost from the beginning, but not quite from the very beginning. -- Jack of Oz ... speak! ... 20:44, 20 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]