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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I’ve heared that there is only a
thin layer of original wood and varnish remaining on many of those old Strads,
Guarneri or Amati violins. The inside was replaced with new wood ?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Did any one heared of this technique ?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>De :</span></font></b><font size=2
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pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>De la part de</span></b> Delwin D Fandrich<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Envoyé :</span></b> mercredi 2 juillet
2008 20:56<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>À :</span></b> '<st1:PersonName w:st="on">Pianotech
List</st1:PersonName>'<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Objet :</span></b> RE: Violin wood</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:navy'>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.</span></font><font color=navy face="Goudy Old Style"><span
style='font-family:"Goudy Old Style";color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:navy'>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. </span></font><font color=navy
face="Goudy Old Style"><span style='font-family:"Goudy Old Style";color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=navy face="Comic Sans MS"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:navy'>Sometimes I
wonder if beauty might be most vividly beheld through the ear of the
mythmaker.</span></font><font color=navy face="Goudy Old Style"><span
style='font-family:"Goudy Old Style";color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:navy'>ddf</span></font><font
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pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Berley Antoine Firmin II<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> July 02, 2008 5:15 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Pianotech
List</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Violin wood</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I thought you all might find this interesting:</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><a
href="http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSL0172939720080702?feedType=RSS&feedName=scienceNews">http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSL0172939720080702?feedType=RSS&feedName=scienceNews</a></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Berley Firmin </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>LaCombe, Louisiana</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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