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Player preferences among new and old violins
Claudia Fritz, Joseph Curtin, Jacques Poitevineau et al., 2012. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109, 760–763.
Double-blind test in which 21 experienced violinists compared six violins, new ones and old ones by Stradivari and Guarneri del Gesù, in a room with dry acoustics. The most-preferred violin was new, the least-preferred a Stradivari, and most players could not tell whether their favourite was new or old.
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The first controlled test of the premise that Old Italian violins are tonally superior.
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Fritz, C., Curtin, J., Poitevineau, J., Morrel-Samuels, P., & Tao, F. C. (2012). Player preferences among new and old violins. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109, 760–763. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1114999109
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title = {Player preferences among new and old violins},
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year = {2012},
doi = {10.1073/pnas.1114999109},
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Fritz, Claudia et al.. “Player preferences among new and old violins.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109, 760–763 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1114999109.