<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <html><head><style type="text/css"></style><title>RE: Violin wood</title></head><body> <div>Del,</div> <div><br></div> <div>Yes, we're getting older, but very likely wiser also. I agree totally with your post.</div> <div><br></div> <div><br></div> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Comic Sans MS" color="#000080">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.</font><br> <font face="Comic Sans MS" color="#000080"></font></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Comic Sans MS" color="#000000"> </font><br> <font face="Comic Sans MS" color="#000080"></font></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Comic Sans MS" color="#000080">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.</font></blockquote> <div><br></div> <div>Bring on the sacrilege. Its time we started seeking the truth in preference to spin.</div> <div><br></div> <div>Ron O.</div> <div><br></div> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Comic Sans MS" color="#000080"><br></font></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Comic Sans MS" color="#000000"> </font><br> <font face="Comic Sans MS" color="#000080"></font></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Comic Sans MS" color="#000080">Sometimes I wonder if beauty might be most vividly beheld through the ear of the mythmaker.</font><br> <font face="Comic Sans MS" color="#000080"></font></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Comic Sans MS" color="#000000"> </font><br> <font face="Comic Sans MS" color="#000080"></font></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Comic Sans MS" color="#000080">ddf</font><br> <font face="Comic Sans MS" color="#000080"></font></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font color="#000000"> </font><br> <font face="Comic Sans MS" color="#000080"></font></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite> <hr></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Tahoma" size="-1"><b>From:</b> pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org]<b> On Behalf Of</b> Berley Antoine Firmin II<br> <b>Sent:</b> July 02, 2008 5:15 AM<br> <b>To:</b> Pianotech List<br> <b>Subject:</b> Violin wood</font><br> <font face="Tahoma" size="-1"></font> <blockquote><font face="Arial" size="-1">I thought you all might find this interesting:</font></blockquote> <blockquote> </blockquote> <blockquote><a href= "http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSL0172939720080702?feedType=RSS&feedName=scienceNews"><span ></span >http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSL0172939720080702?fee<span ></span>dType=RSS&feedName=scienceNews</a></blockquote> <blockquote> </blockquote> <blockquote><font face="Arial" size="-1">Berley Firmin</font></blockquote> <blockquote><font face="Arial" size="-1">LaCombe, Louisiana</font></blockquote> </blockquote> <div><br></div> <div><br></div> <x-sigsep><pre>-- </pre></x-sigsep> <div><font face="Times New Roman" size="+1" color="#0000FF"><b>OVERS PIANOS - SYDNEY</b></font></div> <div><font color="#000000"><i>   </i></font><font color="#0000FF"><i>Grand Piano Manufacturers</i></font><font color="#000000"><br> _______________________</font></div> <div><font size="-2" color="#000000"><br> </font><font color="#000000">Web http://overspianos.com.au</font></div> <div><font color="#000000">mailto:ron@overspianos.com.au<br> _______________________</font></div> </body> </html>