fiddlesticks!
Great idea!
Cool.
Burned samples from what? A Stradivarius? How can that be?
Somehow I have a funny feeling that all these efforts will continue to fail.
I want one!
When my mother died I was given my grandfather’s ‘fiddle.’ I was honored as his playing, though I never heard it, was the stuff of family legend. After I got the violin home I looked inside it. When I saw the label ‘Stradivarius’ I thought I had won the lottery. Unfortunately a few minutes on the Internet revealed that hundreds, if not thousands, of knockoff Strads were made in the 20s and 30s. The fact that it was kept in an old flour sack should have been my first clue.
Somehow I expect that even the modern efforts, with all their technology will discover that it is not possible to replicate a Stradivarius. But you cannot blame them for trying.
Kind of amazed at the fact that the library of congress has one.
I think the secret o the Stradivarius wasn’t merely the design and construction (which is all a CAT scan will show) but the very wood that he had available to make them with.
I think it had something to do with the “little ice age” and the wood that Stradivari had. I don’t think there is any way to duplicate it, without having the 17th century wood that he had.
So where can I buy one for my violinist daughter?