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Re:Study confirms superior sound of a Stradivari is due to w... by tzs on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @06:55PM (#31589191)
A fun illustration of this with violin is this TwoSetViolin video [1] where they and 8 non-violinist musician friends play a game similar to "Telephone". They split into two teams each consisting of one of the TwoSetViolin violinists and 4 of the others.

Each round one of the violinists plays a simple melody for one non-violinist member of the other team. Then that person takes the violin and tries to play it for another non-violinist member of their team and so until the last non-violinist plays it for the violinist on their team. If the violinist can identify the piece their team gets a point.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJYaYHmCmAE

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Re:Study confirms superior sound of a Stradivari is due to w... by jacquesm on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @07:21PM (#31589402)
Oh that brings back some painful memories, hilarious though, and some of them are surprisingly good! (and some are just horrific). The most clear memory I have from those days is that during one of the lessons one of the violin teachers dogs keeled over and died. I think she blamed me for that...

It also makes me wonder if I would be able to get any sound out of a violin today.

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