Violin wood

[Porritt, David]

Del:

 

Like you I'm getting old, however, I mastered cynical years ago!

 

dp

 

David M. Porritt, RPT

dporritt at smu.edu

 

From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On
Behalf Of Delwin D Fandrich
Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 1:56 PM
To: 'Pianotech List'
Subject: 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?feedTyp
e=RSS&feedName=scienceNews

	 

	Berley Firmin 

	LaCombe, Louisiana

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