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Thursday, November 30, 2006

Why are Stradivarius violins so good?

Nature magazine has an article on research by Joseph Nagyvary, professor emeritus of biochemistry at Texas A&M University. He's shown that the chemicals - not the wood itself - used to treat the wood of Stradivarius and Guarneri violins are responsible for their famous and (very) expensive sound.

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