Comments by "" (@johnwattdotca) on "Stradivarius Secret Found By Texas Chemist" video.

  1. This isn't an amazing discovery. This man is wrong.
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  2. Oh yeah, a Texan gets a video and talking about communism starts right away. And oh yeah again, what's described as high technology is going to find the "mystery". That's wrong to begin with. What makes Strads last longer, why we see them, is the fact Stradavarious went around the countryside getting old wood from old buildings. Old wood is as warped as its going to get, so it's a stable material to make violins. "If the entire music industry was against this type of research", as if that happened. If it did, who is wrong? Carbon fiber, what has an even density, no wood-grains, is a far better material to make violins out of.
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  3. You're almost there. Stradivarius went around the country-side looking for old wood from old buildings. Old wood has warped as much as its going to and makes a more stable medium to build a violin. His violins are famous because they are still playable.
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  4. I see a wannabe musician using his chemistry and a worshipful attitude to Stradivarius as a way to set himself up as being there, and using this publicity to get to play his violin in front of us.
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  5. Please, don't be scientific about acoustic instruments. They change their sound and tuning with the environment, air pressure, temperature, and the confines of the rooms they are played in. When you hear a symphony sit down at the beginning, and start to play notes to see how they sound, everyone together, and try to tune all their instruments together, does that sound scientific to you?
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  6. Music is about your ears and what sounds good. It's not a scientific process.
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  7. This isn't about thousands of scientists. It's about a Texan and pushing high technology. This man is a wannabe musician, and his workshipful attitude towards Stradivarius is about putting himself up there, so at the end he gets to play his violin for us. The reason there are still many Stradivarius violins around, why we know his name, is because he looked around the countryside for old wood. Old wood has warped as much as its going to, be a more stable medium for building instruments. If a Strad sounded different it would still be the Strad sound. Carbon fiber makes better instruments because it is inert, no grain to overcome for all frequencies.
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