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RE: Blind-tested soloists unable to tell Stradivarius violins from modern instruments

"It may also demonstrate that some modern luthiers are getting it right..."

Third place went to a Strad beating 4 out of 6 moderns, or beating almost 70% of the moderns ... guess the progress over the last 200 odd years has been, ah, hmmm ... modest?

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In any case the last time this topic made the rounds it came out that most old instruments have almost invariably been modified to play as loud and to project like modern ones ... so it's arguable if any significantly untouched old instrument was involved, period.




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