Violin wood

[Gevaert Pierre]

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 ?

Did  any one heared of this technique ?

 

Pierre Gevaert

 

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De : pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] De la part
de Delwin D Fandrich
Envoyé : mercredi 2 juillet 2008 20:56
À : 'Pianotech List'
Objet : 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

 

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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?feedType=RS
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Berley Firmin 

LaCombe, Louisiana

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