Is the mystique around Stradivarius instruments subjectively put on a pedestal like wine tasting or audiophiles or can someone actually tell the difference in a blind test?
That is one beautiful instrument. What does the front look like?
And I know we can't hear it in its "original glory" anymore, but is the sample only like 10 seconds long because it's proprietary, or is the cello too delicate to play a full number on, or...?
> The instrument remained in the French court until the French Revolution, after which the basso fell out of favor and the “King” was “drastically reduced in size” through an alteration process that “stood at the forefront of musical instrument development during the last quarter of the 18th century
I had to process that sentence a couple of times to understand that the process the author was talking about wasn't the guillotine.
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[ 2.4 ms ] story [ 25.1 ms ] threadThe grandaddy of the guy that taught Stradivarius.
And I know we can't hear it in its "original glory" anymore, but is the sample only like 10 seconds long because it's proprietary, or is the cello too delicate to play a full number on, or...?
Edit: Found the museum piece with full pictures: https://emuseum.nmmusd.org/objects/6684/violoncello?ctx=7735...
I had to process that sentence a couple of times to understand that the process the author was talking about wasn't the guillotine.