'Just one minor gripe: period instruments -- Strads/Amatis -- that have been upmod'ed, have only been modified with regard to the pitch/angle of the neck. The f

'Just one minor gripe: period instruments -- Strads/Amatis -- that have been upmod'ed, have only been modified with regard to the pitch/angle of the neck. The fingerboard is longer to facilitate the more demanding repertoire, but the neck is certainly the same length. The ribs are not shortened nor elongated in modernizing a period instrument.