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Originally posted by gaijindabe
For the longest time they concentated on the varnish and the shapes he used - then someone figured out the wood was grown during a period of "global cooling". Slow growing and dense.. Interesting stuff.
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Believe it or not, some even are contemplating about whether the sewage in the river that the logs were floated down may have conditioned the wood in some way!
Strads in reality, are now more or less collector pieces and very few are actually in use. While many indeed possesed fine tonal quality, it does not mean that every Strad will neccesarily sound any better than another old master built instrument worth only $20,000. It has been awhile since I have read up on this stuff, but I think there are about 50 "known" Strads in the world today and tens of thousands of Strad "copies". In Europe, in the 1800's, lot's of little shops turned these things out in the thousands to folks who wanted to impress their friends with their "Strads" (kind of like the Rolex watches one can buy on the street in NYC).