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Re:The lattitude in that definition is huge..

"Only if it is a cheap shit violin or a really bad musician. Have you actually done this?? My ex-girlfriend use to practice in our 25 square meter main room. It was sometimes VERY loud but NEVER steely sounding. Of course she was playing on only top shelf instruments. I have done several recording sessions with here in small studios (music studios not damped recording studios) and small concert halls and even standing 1 or 2 meters from the instrument it would never be called steely."

The sound of a violin is greatly influenced by the strings, there is no way a gut stringed violin will sound steely no matter how badly played, it simply not part of the sound of gut stringed violins, On the other hand a steel stringed violin may well sound steely and probably will sound so depending on promixity and the music program. However, the upshot of using steel strings is that they are louder than gut strings and as a result the sound is projected further. That said, even a gut stringed instruments will sound strident if listened to in close proximity on an energetic music program. And in both cases, a highly reflective hall will make it worse.

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