Del: Like you I'm getting old, however, I mastered cynical years ago! dp David M. Porritt, RPT dporritt at smu.edu From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Delwin D Fandrich Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 1:56 PM To: 'Pianotech List' Subject: RE: Violin wood 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. 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?feedTyp e=RSS&feedName=scienceNews Berley Firmin LaCombe, Louisiana -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20080703/b701b255/attachment-0001.html
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