peter t. daniels

Well duh, you're not supposed to thaw them!!

Obviously the results are better when the performer bonds with (to) the instrument.


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kandresen

Confidence in your equipment can pay untold results.

peter t. daniels

That's a completely reasonable hypothesis, since every musical
instrument involves a great deal of handwork so no two violins or pianos
or bass clarinets are identical, and the usual user will adapt to the
instrument's quirks.
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@att.net

alanwatkinsuk

Can't say anything about the trumpets but it would drop the timpani a
semitone or more and you would need a pretty big fridge.

Kind regards,
Alan M. Watkins

john harrington

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It would be interesting to see what a polymer chemist would have to say
about it, though. It doesn't seem unreasonable that daily vibration would
affect the wood and that a substantial pause in the vibration would return
the wood to some state less conducive to good music making.

But whatever the truth, it strikes me as a harmless belief, since it is
likely to keep good violinsts (who tend to own the rarified instruments)
playing rather than taking long hiatuses, which is good for us listeners.

What would be more interesting to me is to see whether or how much of the
esteem of Stradivari's and Guarneri's instruments is deserved. Doing such a
double blind test would be less expensive, I imagine. I myself am not in
any position to judge whether those playing on the old instruments sound
well simply because they're virtuosi or because they're playing on a Strad
as opposed to a Sears and Roebuck. Mostly because I've never heard a good
violinist playing on a Sears and Roebuck.


J