"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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Eisboch wrote:
"Reggie Smithers" wrote in message
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It has to do with the tone of the early strats. sort of like the tone of
a STRATOVARIUS Violin has a unique tone ; ). There are many people who
are just as picky about their pre-cbs strats guitars and the old Fender
Amps.



I watched an interesting television show the other day (History Channel,
I think). The subject was that of trying to unlock the mystery of the
superior tonal quality of a Stradivarius violin. Many theories have been
put forth over the years, the most popular being that he used a secret
lacquer. Turns out not to be true. The "secret" was simply that he
lived during a cyclic climate era with very little rain, resulting in
slow tree growth and closely spaced tree rings in the wood.

Eisboch


The "secret" was that Stradivari was an innovative, master craftsman,
someone absolutely unique and a person whose skills cannot be duplicated.
I guarantee you that if he were alive today, he'd still be making the best
violins, cellos, guitars, violas, and harps. Do you think Leonardo would
be anything but a master's master were he alive today?

Methinks our society places too much effort on analyzing genius rather
than enjoying it. Perhaps it is because we no longer live in an era of
geniuses and giants.

A lot was the wood. He also learned how to make the complete back vibrate
at same rate, by dimensioning the thickness. There was a local person that
made a very fine violin, in the quality and tone of a Stradivarius. The
violin was stolen a couple of years ago. Most of the secret of the violin
the experts figured, was the wood. It was made from a chunk of 1600's wood
from a ruined monastery that his buddy brought back from WW-II. The wood is
a big part of a great acoustic instrument to this day.