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if you allow me a devil's advocate comment, don't you think the fact that playing a modern violin and figuring out how to making it sound the best and being 'do
by tetraodonpuffer 10y ago
if you allow me a devil's advocate comment, don't you think the fact that playing a modern violin and figuring out how to making it sound the best and being 'done' could be because the modern violin is constructed better?
If a modern violin has tighter tolerances maybe it is less sensitive to moisture / temperature changes, making it sound 'the same' under a larger set of conditions than the antique instrument.
The antique instrument being less 'perfect' could be more sensitive to day-to-day environmental changes, making it more challenging to play (as you have to learn to compensate for these) but not necessarily because it is a better instrument, but possibly because it is a worse one technically speaking.
Now of course having an instrument that you have to 'figure out' all the time likely makes you a much better player, able to adapt to other instruments more easily and so on, so it might well be that a 'less perfect' instrument is the superior one, but just wondering about this