stradivari

You probably wouldn't want Antonio Stradivari to build you a house or Bob Vila to make you a violin.

With only about 650 surviving Stradivari instruments around, this is about more than just the sound.

Rather it was a secret recipe of wood preservative used by the Cremonese makers Stradivari and Guarneri to impregnate the spruce.

Maybe you'll scale up to a factory with a few dozen journeymen cranking out instruments… like Stradivari did, three hundred years ago.

This study compares Stradivari and new violins principally from the listener’s perspective.

Incidentally, the only mistake was with one of the two Stradivari examples.

But, based on your initial description, Stradivari simply loved making instruments.

What is it about Stradivari or other hand made instruments that make them so coveted, are desirable sonic characteristics measurable and traceable to manufacturing techniques?

I think the reason Stradivari violins sound so good is that they are so old and have been played for centuries.

> Stradivari violins, hand-crafted by members of the Italian Stradivari family, are legendarily considered to have a superior and unique sound compared to violins made with even the most modern techniques.

I believe the original Stradivari were made much thicker and compressed over time.

> What is it about Stradivari or other hand made instruments that make them so coveted, are desirable sonic characteristics measurable and traceable to manufacturing techniques?

This article is actually titled "Study confirms superior sound of Stradivari is due to how wood was treated ".

So, whichever story you want to go with determines the "column" in which Stradivari belongs.

The abstract [1] says: "We asked 21 experienced violinists to compare violins by Stradivari and Guarneri del Gesu with high-quality new instruments.

Nagyvary has made different claims about the "secret of Stradivari" over the last thirty?

Here is a 1688 Stradivari[1] guitar with fixed frets and a EDO octave, they were reasonably common by that point.

The results are unambiguous: listeners found that new violins projected significantly better than those by Stradivari.

Luthiers are practicing an art that would be recognizable to Stradivari, three hundred years ago.