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In Reply to: Strads worth fortunes or not, I hear they sound better. posted by cheap-Jack on April 16, 2007 at 12:45:09:
You are right, they do sound better...at least the ones that are in good working order. That being said there are strads and then there are STRADS! Just like everything that is handmade, no two are exactly alike and no two sound exactly alike. I would wager though that they are similar enough that if you came up with a quantitative method to assess them that they would all fall into more or less the same grouping and another violin (like a guarneri) would likewise end up in a separate grouping.
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> I would wager though that they are similar enough that if you came up with a quantitative method to assess them that they would all fall into more or less the same grouping <
Well I hope Mr. Stradivari was careful about the instruments that left his shop but perhaps a few "stinkers" made their way out (perhaps a customer they didn't particularly like). After all, they made I believe well over 1000 instruments (as a family) over a quite long career of the maestro. Of course I am sure they were lacking the QC of say, Yamaha but then if they all sounded the same but like crap would you want to play on one?
> if they all sounded the same but like crap would you want to play on one? <I would if I were an objectivist and couldn't measure any difference. Then I'd simply assume they sounded the same, even if they didn't, and I'd be happy with my piece of crap. :)
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