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The Stradivarius Secret

Dec 7, 2003 8:37PM PST

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Interesting, Dave...
Dec 8, 2003 12:15AM PST

That's interesting, Dave. I can't help but wonder if a violin maker got his hands on some of the proper (in age and type) wood, say from "salvage" from a badly damaged antique, and used it in construction of a violin if it would have that tone. Just a rambling thought.
Here's another one. As there was "a 'Little Ice Age' that gripped Europe from the mid-1400s until the mid-1800s" for that period of 200 years, might a look at temperature trends in the 150 years from that end to the current time tend to show in comparison a (dare I say it...) a global warming?

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Re: Interesting, Dave...
Dec 9, 2003 10:21PM PST

Hi, J.

I wondered about using old wood myself. As for your "global warming" idea, nice try, but things had stabililized within a century or so aftewards, also according to tree ring data.
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A smart (and very patient) entrepreneur...
Dec 9, 2003 10:35PM PST

...might try to find a way to use a controlled environment to create similar wood. It wouldn't reap benefits for generations, but would be an interesting experiment.