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Acoustic evolution of old Italian violins from Amati to Stradivari

Hwan-Ching Tai, Yen-Ping Shen, Jer-Horng Lin et al., 2018. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115, 5926–5931.

Speech-analysis (formant) measurements of the sound of Amati and Stradivari violins; Stradivari's violins show higher formants, resembling tenor or alto voices rather than bass or baritone.

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The one recent study claiming a measurable acoustic signature.

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Tai, H. C., Shen, Y. P., Lin, J. H., & Chung, D. T. (2018). Acoustic evolution of old Italian violins from Amati to Stradivari. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115, 5926–5931. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1800666115
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