Word: cremona
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spellbound at the instruments themselves, the immediate producers of the music he heard. They were all graceful curves and deep rich colors--deep and rich as the music which poured from their willowy f holes. Vag thought of the man who had made them, Stradivarius, the wizardry master of Cremona. Somehow, he pictured him as looking like Pinnochio's Geppetto--small and wizened, with a rapidly thinning shock of white hair, bright rabbit-like eyes, wire-rimmed glasses set on the end of a very sharp nose, and a brown wart with two grey hairs protruding from...
Every violinist knows what a Stradivarius or a Guarnerius is, knows that these famed fiddles made in Cremona more than 200 years ago are considered the best in the world. Supposedly unrecapturable is the secret of the Cremona makers-whether it was construction, shape, wood or varnish. Professor Frederick Albert Saunders, Harvard physicist, has long been making a scientific analysis of the tone quality and playing performance of Stradivarius and Guarnerius violins in comparison with the best modern instruments. Last week, in the Journal of the Franklin Institute, he published his findings...
Logical conclusion: two centuries from now, the violins of the most skilled modern makers will be just as good as the Cremona violins are today...