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Soloist evaluations of six Old Italian and six new violins

Claudia Fritz, Joseph Curtin, Jacques Poitevineau et al., 2014. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111, 7224–7229.

Ten soloists blind-tested six Old Italian violins (five by Stradivari) and six new ones in a rehearsal room and a 300-seat hall. Six of ten chose a new violin to take on tour, and soloists could not tell new from old better than chance.

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The larger replication of the player test.

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Fritz, C., Curtin, J., Poitevineau, J., Borsarello, H., Wollman, I., Tao, F. C., & Ghasarossian, T. (2014). Soloist evaluations of six Old Italian and six new violins. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111, 7224–7229. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1323367111
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