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Re: I just visited a violinmaker

SM: ""
Many great violins created during the glory of Cremona Italy are at the end of their lives. ""

SM: ""
With all of our science noboby can recreate a great violin like those created in Cremona Italy about 300 or more years ago by the great violin makers. Even today, nobody can record and reproduce the sounds they can make accurately.""

SM: ""
The fault lies in the technology, the violinmakers gave us over three centuries to capture their sound, learned their secrets and we have failed. It's our loss, not theirs, they did the best that they could have done, we didn't. It's our loss and the loss of future generations.""

So wait a minute, let me get this straight..

We, with our advanced technology, can't figure out how to reproduce the sound that is produced by a 300 year old wood instrument that, from what you are saying, is "at the end of their lives".

Some questions come to mind..

Has the sound from the instruments remained exactly the same over the 300 years, even though the instruments themselves are degrading? Or, is the sound currently produced better than what it was when it was built.

Are they chasing a ghost? How do we know that what we make now is not as good as the stuff 300 years ago? Perhaps in another 300 years, they'll be saying the exact same thing about what is being built now.

Maybe the answer is..if ya gonna make a violin that sounds like the 300 year old ones, ya shoulda started a looooooong time ago, like 1700.

Cheers, John


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