Violin wood

[Ron Overs]

Del,

Yes, we're getting older, but very likely wiser also. I agree totally 
with your post.


>Perhaps I'm just getting old and cynical, but -- over the past 40 
>odd years I've read probably a dozen news articles describing how 
>researchers using some new analytical tool or process have 
>discovered the "secret" of these violins. I can't possibly recall 
>all of them but surely one of the most colorful was the "discovery" 
>that Stradivarius soaked his woods in urine.
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>Being neither a violinist nor a violin maker I'm not qualified to 
>pass judgment but several violin maker friends assure me that 
>contemporary violin makers making violins superior to anything that 
>either Guarneri or Stradivarius made. It would be sacrilege, of 
>course, to say this publicly.

Bring on the sacrilege. Its time we started seeking the truth in 
preference to spin.

Ron O.

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>Sometimes I wonder if beauty might be most vividly beheld through 
>the ear of the mythmaker.
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>From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] 
>On Behalf Of Berley Antoine Firmin II
>Sent: July 02, 2008 5:15 AM
>To: Pianotech List
>Subject: Violin wood
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>I thought you all might find this interesting:
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><http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSL0172939720080702?feedType=RSS&feedName=scienceNews>http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSL0172939720080702?feedType=RSS&feedName=scienceNews
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>Berley Firmin
>LaCombe, Louisiana


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