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Yes, there has been a lot of research around the acoustic properties of the Cremona fiddles.

Your example of translation by Gerard of Cremona was under the bishop, not under Muslim rule.

I actually took my now-wife to the Gelateria Cremona on one of our first dates.

Violins produced before the Cremona variants were ukuleles in comparison.

The Almagest version of the Galileo notes in the OP article is the Latin translation of the Arabic translation by Gerard of Cremona in Toledo around 1175.

A couple of years ago I was driving through the area with a couple families and on a whim decided to check if Cremona had a violin museum.

I catch the green line out just past Chestnut Hill every day and there certainly isn't a Brisbane, Australia out there, or I'd be at Gelateria Cremona every day.

That said, I think there is a growing consensus that the Cremona violins are a bit overrated, and that modern makers are making wonderful instruments for a tiny fraction of the price.

(The best acoustic research available concerning Stradivarii was done in the production of this graphite fiddle.) Yes, there is a lot of voodoo mumbo-jumbo talk about the magic of the Cremona fiddles.

Another fun facts, the Almagest version of the Galileo notes in the OP article is the Latin translation of Almagest by Gerard of Cremona in Toledo around 1175, from the Arabic translation of Almagest performed in the House of Wisdom (or Baitul Hikmah).

Luthiers outside of the Cremona circle were more than willing to believe that there was magic in them there beetle shells -- it's a lot easier to swallow the idea of alchemical tricksies than to accept that someone else is taking more care than you are at every step in the process.

Some of these seem like they were around only for a special event and then were torn down; for instance the one in Cremona, Italy labeled "2024 Italian Koi Show".

> Italy’s Mostarda di Cremona, Not actually mustard, which in Italian is "senape".

Before the coronavirus broke, “we more often had the luxury to try to intubate patients who were at the limit,” said Mario Riccio, head of anaesthesiology at the Oglio Po hospital near Cremona.

I also searched for "Monteverdi" out of curiosity and the largest cluster bearing that name are in Lombardy centred around Cremona, which was indeed where the famous composer was born four and a half centuries ago.

Stradivarius/Cremona violins, Steinway pianos, etc.