Wood density holds key to Stradivarius sweet sound

Reuters ^ | Jul 1, 2008 | Ben Hirschler

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LONDON (Reuters) - Researchers using a medical scanner have worked out why a Stradivarius violin sounds so good -- it is because of the remarkably even density of the wood.

For the past 300 years, musicians and scientists have puzzled over the unparalleled quality of classical Cremonese violins made by Italian masters like Antonio Stradivari and Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesu.

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But can they explain Cremora?

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"But can they explain Cremora?"

Yes, that's the stuff with canola oil in it that gives you cataracts, alzheimers, and plantar fascitis.

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I read somewhere that the little ice age produced the compressed tree rings responsible for the harmonics inherent in the Stradivarius instruments...sounded reasonable to me.

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...and plantar fascitis.

Damn that Mussolini!

[decimon]

I read somewhere that the little ice age produced the compressed tree rings responsible for the harmonics inherent in the Stradivarius instruments...sounded reasonable to me.

Everything sounds reasonable to me because I don't have a clue.

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I resemble that!