The Great Violin Mystery
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
- An educational documentary about the actual contributions of acoustical physicists to the business of making great-sounding violins. Jack Fry, not an acoustical physicist but a nuclear physicist, by much simpler straightforward aurally based common sense thinking, was able to contribute far more than those scientists and makers who let microphones and electronic machines do their listening for them. Note the ear protectors on the head of one such so-called acoustical scientist who typifies the notion that the eyes trump the ears when it comes to studying sound.I hope you like it!
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Can't tell you how much I appreciate this documentary. I AM A 62 YEAR OLD VIOLIN STUDENT. MY ADVICE IS DONT EVER GIVE UP A MUSICAL INSTRUMENT,EVEN IF YOU CANT READ MUSIC, YOUR EARS CAN GUIDE YOU BE EXTREMELY PATIENT. I REGRET HAVING STOPPED VIOLIN AT 6TH GRADE. THOSE
Dear Eduard, Thanks for putting this video on RUclips up on your channel. I had it up on my channel until the folks at NOVA and or their PBS stations black balled it and deleted it. So don't be surprised when the same thing happens to you and your channel and have it removed. Best of luck, Keith Hill
Did you ever figure out why You Tube deleted your video?
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It is such a pleasure to watch, and enjoy, a video without loud, annoying, monotonous, bland, senseless, insipid, mindless, distracting back-ground music! Thank you so much to this video maker!
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Thank you very much. Most greatful.
It is this episode of NOVA along with my sister's dashed soloist hopes which would help set me on a quest to solve this great mystery. While I had fun exploring and experimenting with the various facets over the years I never did solve the mystery. What's better beyond imagination though is running across an author that convinced me he has. Isaak Vigdorchik, God bless him, not only solved but killed the great violin mystery.
The one thing seemingly not discussed much is the age of the instruments , 250 years or more . Maybe these top line instruments being made today will perform as great as a Strad . does today . All stringed instruments that are made well, like a vintage Martin or Gibson improve as the wood ages and seasons . Patience , dear listeners
Stradivari's finger planes had a gently curved bottom, nit a flat bottom.
A subtle difference that could really make a difference when working the wood precisely.
Some influence is accounted by the aging of the wood, now over 300 years since construction, something we cannot duplicate.
Well-structured detailed info thanks.
Fascinating study of acoustics!
Thank you for an enlightening documentary. The question remains, though, about how clever, technological, skilful, knowledgable and understanding our antecedents were in many areas of the sciences. Will we ever have that inquisitiveness satisfied?
Thank you, I get something out of this everything I watch this.😅
180 thousand dollars for a Stradivarius violin: those were the days! The latest I heard from an auction in New York was that a Strad was recently sold there for 18 million dollars. Anyone having bought master instruments back in, say, the 1970s must thereby have made the best investments ever imaginable!
Thank you so much, very rich informations!!
I remember seeing this program when it aired. Very interesting stuff. I wonder how many of today’s top makers were influenced by this information. We certainly seem to be in a new golden age of violin making, with instruments that finally do compete with top older instruments.
Thank you!
so informative...
Right after showing the most expensive violin in the world, the video of massive production of student violin making just shocked me😂😂😂
When you get an old you should respect the way the maker built it that doesn't mean regulating that means just set it up and play it for what he built
At 55min : its just called "politeness" (which is basically a synonym of "stupidity"). He is telling her what she should listen and she simply cannot say "no". Have you ever hear, guys, about BLIND TESTING?!? :)))
Not to mention three hundred years of tweaking by luthiers on each instrument.
#7(comment), Sept.21/2023. Completely worthwhile ✝️
Sacconi destroyed many a Stradivarius violin by re-graduating the back, this unknown Mckay has not been touched by Sacconi that may explain why it has such a powerful concert sound! Who would "touch up' a painting of the Dutch masters or the like?
這部影片覺得需要帶到諾亞方舟裡面去。我在影片中獲得了很多的靈感。他可能會在接下來的。很常的時間。佔據我製造小提琴的想法？再一次感謝你。
Говорят, их делали из деревьев, которые росли в Малый ледниковый период, но это не убедительно.
Typically American "science" : lets brake 60 violins, instead of solving one equation (two-dimensional oscillations with an external force applied at some point). Bravo ;)))
It has, since the making of this video, been pretty well proven that Strads and DeGesu's etc. do NOT sound any better than modern makers. Blind fold tests have over and over again showed listeners cannot distinguish a 'Great' violin from 18th century Cremona from the best modern makers. The importance and expense of such instruments is in their historical and antique/art value NOT in either great sound OR playability, though most Strads and other Cremonese violins sure have both. What year was this video made?
While there's no doubt modern instruments have become better than ever, I would still beg to differ. What's been pretty well proven, if anything, is that the vast majority of listeners today can't distinguish between a good Cremona of old and an excellent modern violin. There's been an awful lot of shade cast on these so-called tests orchestrated by modern makers. Not the least of which is the owners of the very best antique instruments lack of willingness to be involved. On top of that there are a always going to be a few old pros who time after time can easily hear the difference. Blindfolded, nose plugs, oven mitts w/e. Most ears either didn't ever have or have lost the capacity. If memory serves I first saw this episode broadcast in the mid to late seventies.
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Every tree grows up in its own, very specific microclimate.
Lost varnish recipe? More like lost varnish over time.