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In Reply to: RE: The victory of sanity over mysticism [nt] ;-) posted by Chris from Lafayette on March 25, 2015 at 12:49:55
Did you catch the the PBS Special: Two Gentlemen from Cremona? Facsinating look into the fabled violin makers. They interview luthiers, players, and collectors. And all have interesting and varying perspectives.No answers are given but a lot of speculation is thrown out. t is also interesting since one player(Stern?) has both a Strad and an a Guarneri.
Even through the dubious sound of the DVD. nuances between different instruments can be heard. I Think it was Kyung Wha Chung who explained the instrument has to be matched to the player and not all players and instruments share the same compatibility.
Fascinating show, and I distinctly recall one scene where a luthier had a dismembered violin with the the Stradivari sticker prominently visible in the belly.....
Imagine performing a repair on an instrument like that....
OH yeah,one luthier claimed that age made the vintage instruments sound better, His comment was that we may need to wait a century or so for modern builders' skills to really shine.
Edits: 03/25/15Follow Ups:
I once attended a recital by Itzhak Perlman where he brought a Strad and a Guarneri on stage, alternated between them, and asked the audience to decide which we liked better. My decision: Perlman would probably sound good on just about any decent violin.
I stand corrected, it was Perlman. Still his comments on each were interesting.....Sometimes its not so much what the audience hears, but what the player hears.
I don't think he was too concerned with which violin the audience preferred. He was just explaining why he had two, which otherwise would seem strange.
In the video he liked both but he had a different description for the sound of each. Memory fades, but IIRC he thought the Guarneri was intimate but big and the Strad a more forward in presentation and he was not going to give up either instrument
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