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. > > > >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. > > > >Sometimes I wonder if beauty might be most vividly beheld through >the ear of the mythmaker. > > > >ddf > > > > >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 > >I thought you all might find this interesting: > ><http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSL0172939720080702?feedType=RSS&feedName=scienceNews>http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSL0172939720080702?feedType=RSS&feedName=scienceNews > >Berley Firmin >LaCombe, Louisiana -- OVERS PIANOS - SYDNEY Grand Piano Manufacturers _______________________ Web http://overspianos.com.au mailto:ron at overspianos.com.au _______________________ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20080703/f7255a4a/attachment.html
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