Re: Stradivarius

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From: Geoff Lock
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 04:22

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On 23/06/2011 4:35 AM, DonH wrote:
> "Geoff Lock"<glock@home>  wrote in message
> news:4e016d6c$1@dnews.tpgi.com.au...
>> On 18/06/2011 7:06 AM, DonH wrote:
>>> - violin, that is.  What's so unique about it, that it cannot be
>>> replicated?
>>>
>>
>> The sound - not that I would anything about violins and their construction
>> :)
>>
>
> # What I am getting at is : that such violin is made of mundane materials,
> unless the wood or other components come from biologics which are now
> extinct.
>      Was the technician who made the violin so skilled that all subsequent
> craftsmen are inferior?  Can an x-ray computer map of the violin detect a
> difference?
>      Is the sound uniquely and objectively different, or only subjectively
> so?
>

I vaguely remember a doco on the Stradivarius and the only think I 
remember from that doco was that it was interesting :)

I am sure that the points you have raised have been done to death by 
someone somewhere.

As far as the quality of the sound is concerned, you will note that a 
Stradivarius is most often seen being played by a virtuoso. Now, by my 
reckoning, a good test of sound quality should include the Stradivarius 
being played by a hopeless incompetent - someone like me :) Any chance 
of organising such a test, DonH? :)

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