News on violine build and sound characteristics

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Ruphus

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News on violine build and sound char...

Now determined on on f-holes shape* and back sides diameter*².
http://rspa.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/471/2175/20140905

Ruphus

* longer = more sonority
*² thicker = better

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Ruphus

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RE: News on violine build and sound ... (in reply to Ruphus)

And new builds win over antique ones in most extensive blind test to date.
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2014/04/03/1323367111

In the same context (and as mentioned before): Common sense that tends falling for trends and myths may stop sipping sour wines, that some grand connoisseurs elected as `only pure´wine sometime in the eighties or so.
They are just sour, not tasty. Simply trusting one´s senses can make sense, occasionally.

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That said, personally I still believe that aged tone woods / instruments do bring a special quality with themselves, provided the instrument having been a good one from beginning.
And I assume that there be physical reasons for such improving with age and use.
But my mind could be deceiving senses, and I shall on principle A/B to make sure about actual condition of an instrument.

Always vary of anticipation / prejudge / suppressed perception, yet now living in the epitome hemisphere of subjectivity / seeing how far blindness can go I trust the thought constuct before praxis less than ever.
( Sorry for Pidgin; hope you still get my drift on hyped violines, saur vines .... and much worse settled ignorant hell on earth.)

Ruphus

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