[pianotech] old violins

[Michael Spreeman]

Nice article and not at all surprising. Everything organic deteriorates with time. At lease in this dimension or if artificially preserved. (My studio is across the street from ALCOR - which is the company that freezes human heads and bodies to preserve them....which, btw, makes for some interesting Halloween myths!). Anyway,  I never understood aging could translate into a musical instrument that uses wood as a critical moving mechanical interface improving and becoming more efficient with age. I do experience new belly assemblies "coming into their own" sometime within the 1st 1 to 2 years, however.  But it's doubtful that this has anything with the aging or deteriorating of molecules. It likely has more to do with all those little folks learning to play well together. 

Michael  Spreeman 
www.RavenscroftPianos.com

> Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2012 22:51:52 -0600
> From: rnossaman at cox.net
> To: pianotech at ptg.org
> Subject: Re: [pianotech] old violins
> 
> 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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