[pianotech] old violins

Ron Nossaman rnossaman at cox.net
Mon Jan 2 21:51:52 MST 2012


On 1/2/2012 7:42 PM, David Weiss wrote:
> I heard an interesting story on NPR today about old violins versus new
> ones. Researchers did a double blind study to see if professional
> violinists could distinguish the old violins from some new ones.
>
> Follow the link if you are interested.
>
> David Weiss
>
> http://www.npr.org/blogs/deceptivecadence/2012/01/02/144482863/double-blind-violin-test-can-you-pick-the-strad


No surprise here. We're surrounded by magic we look down our noses at, 
junk we worship, and a whole lot we aren't even aware of.

Ron N


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