On 12/24/2012 10:40 AM, Fons Adriaensen wrote: >> That said I'm sure a violin 10,000 euros is way better than a 100 euros one. >> But from there to "a stradivarius is way better than what violin makers of >> today build" (if that's what you meant), there is a lot of hype and magic >> thinking involved, which is very surprising from you. > > "A Stradivarius is way better than what violin makers of today build" > is not what I wrote and certainly not what I meant. > > And yes, there's lot of hype and a lot of ill-founded aversion to > contemporary technology. I'm pretty sure that if some violin maker > would discover a way to use some of today's high-tech materials > to build a really good violin, most of the 'well-thinking' music > world would want to burn him at the stake (along with his violins). I read about this guy in 1983, in a science magazine. I think he cracked the code: http://www.nagyvaryviolins.com/ _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
