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How Stradivari Came to Dictate Violin Design
- JasonFruit 12y agoA much better link is to the original paper, which has considerable nuance that the NY Times article fails to convey: http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0109229#pone-0109229-g007 http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjourna...
- CountHackulus 12y agoIt seems incredible to me that the varnish on the wood has a bigger effect on the sound than the shape. It seems counter-intuitive at first, but the more I think about it, the more it seems that the shape of the resonance chamber at the edges doesn't really matter. Interesting takeaway!
- TylerE 12y agoThis is also part of why many older guitars sound better than newer ones. Back in the day all they had for spray-on finishes was nitrocellulose, which is nasty stuff and a pain to work with but dries quite thin. These days most lower end instruments are sprayed with some sort of poly or other heavier laquer.