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Million-dollar Strads fall to modern violins in blind ‘sound check’

Post author By Paul Jenkins
Post date 16 June 2020
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Million-dollar Strads fall to modern violins in blind ‘sound check’

The secret of Stradivariuses like this one, the "Penny" Strad, may be that there is no secret beyond the great musicians who play them. BRENDAN MCDERMID/REUTERS — The secret of Stradivariuses like this one, the “Penny” Strad, may be that there is no secret beyond the great musicians who play them.

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For more than a century, violins crafted by Stradivari and members of his family have been thought to possess acoustic qualities that new violins simply can’t match. (Violins fashioned contemporaneously by members of the Guarneri family are similarly revered.)

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