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It seems a bit pointless to run these tests, since it’s up to each violinist to choose his or her own favourite instrument. Their own studies show that top vio
by akamaka 9y ago
It seems a bit pointless to run these tests, since it’s up to each violinist to choose his or her own favourite instrument. Their own studies show that top violinists can easily detect the differences between individual violins.
- wilsonnb 9y agoI'd like to see those studies, if you have links to them. I've never heard of a study confirming any noticeable difference between Stradivarius violins and modern ones of the same quality.
- akamaka 9y agoThe posted article has a link to the earlier study from the same researchers: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2014/04/elite-violinists-fail-distinguish-legendary-violins-modern-fiddles http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2014/04/elite-violinists-fail... “The consistency of results from session to session showed that soloists could definitely distinguish one violin from another. However, the soloists seemed to prefer the new violins.”
- wilsonnb 9y ago"The consistency of results from session to session showed that soloists could definitely distinguish one violin from another. However, the soloists seemed to prefer the new violins, the researchers report online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. In their lists of favorites, new violins outnumber old ones roughly 3-to-2, and the most popular violin by far was a new one, denoted N5. Musicians rated qualities of new instruments higher, too. And when it came to telling old violins from new, the soloists did no better than if they had simply guessed." Extended your quote from the article.
- bllguo 9y agoThis is unfairly downvoted.. top violinists have their favorite instruments for real reasons. This comment never mentioned anything about Stradivarius violins being better than modern ones.