You mean there's a plan?

A new book called "Antonio Stradivari disegni, modellis, forme" published by Museo del Violino reveals documentation that classical violins were actually designed.......
Charles R. Ervin
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[@kokeskokeskokes]

I suspect Leonardo. He invented something that resonated extremely well and was something akin to lira da braccio, but we don't know what it was or what it looked like. He even won a musical award playing it. He died in 1519 and violin appeared around 1520. Oh, and he was the first engineer, founder of technical drawing, author of a square root spiral and inventor of a compass.

[@kokeskokeskokes]

I'll have a violin by Leonardo before I am done, should it still exist. I am his biggest fan.

[@cgorano]

An actual cliff hanger. So...

[@SAMA09]

What is the title of the book you have shown....stradivarius
Please do let me know
Where I can buy

[@houstonsheltonbees814]

Thank you sir.

[@oldgittarist]

Marvellous, entirely makes sense!

[@healingworksyesjohnn]

i would like your book in english of all your integration and wisdom thanks

[@fnersch3367]

Yep. Happy carving! Has anyone done or thought of using state of the art CT scan equipment to scan some of the great fiddles and get their topologies. With this technology one can get complete dimensions of these violins down to the bacterial level (50-100 microns). This is completely non-invasive and was done on the Antikythera Mechanism in 2005. I wish this could happen.

[@pinsk94]

This has been done.

[@pinsk94]

ruclips.net/video/kfqzFBkFT4s/видео.html

[@MikeMiller-fc2cc]

Can I purchase a book translated into English. That has to be a goldmine of information.

[@fnersch3367]

Too bad these great treatises are not in English. Readership would be far larger. The most educated know English.

[@johnjriggsarchery2457]

@@fnersch3367 If that was true, the books would be in English.

[@healingworksyesjohnn]

Its seems that architectural design, dome and cathedral designs have very long history as does Pythagorean math/music modes; I read that bells and bell competitions peaked before the modern violin, most importantly carving the interior of large bells and the exterior shaping of hand bells to produce devine pure tones and most importantly the overtones, were well established before the cremona violin making peak; can you share perhaps how this knowledge might have informed all music instrument building, church buildings ect,
thanks this knowledge may have been so pervasive as to be normal and not written down, but somewhere likes Bach's works maybe sitting in some church files how to shape and make pure tones from bell making that Cremona fine violins truly imitate with exquisitely clear overtones almost louder than the fundamental; like a tabla where the fundamental tone is noisy and the normal tuning is actually the second overtone and fine players can get another octave of pure tones, tuned precisely to more than one thousandths of a quaver. This I have measured from a professionally tuned tanbura and the corresponding properly finely tuned tabla. It appears that ancient styles of music were all perfectly tuned instruments. The modern violin and modern piano can be considered transition instruments which included common back then ancient devine ways of constructing music and buildings as devine design and modern designs which seem to forget the music of the spheres and math that enabled the right angles and prediction of eclipses by ancient peoples. So why cant the violin be highly planned and designed after centruries of planning not magically appearing by magical masters of violin making.

[@catalinquercinola7553]

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