Aaron Rabushka ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>Kevin Sutton wrote:
>
>>I think that it is a given that many fine "modern" instruments were made
>>in the Baroque years.  The difference being the kind of bow and string
>>material that were or are used. ...
>
>The perhaps some of those "modern" stringed instruments are really period
>instruments after all?

And the neck has been strengthened (to take the additional tension of the
modern strings) and the bridge has been ditto and the neck may have been
lengthened and...

There *is* a difference between a virigin Strad and one that is in
use today.

Deryk Barker
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