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Re: Humidity, temperature, cracking - Historic Musicians

Author: Julian ibiza
Date: 2023-11-15 21:09

As for Sphor's lost Stradivarious, as I understand it, the cold isn't a problem for string instruments so much as heat. Luthiers deliberately use glues with low melting points, as this allows them to take the instrument appart for repairs using heat.The unions are also designed to be the weak point so that they burst if the intrument takes a knock, rather than the wood splitting.

Probably most people know that Stradivarious chose the trees out of the forest to make his instruments ( the maple coming from a particular region of Bosnia).
What is probably less know, is that choseing trees in the forest was pretty much standard practice for most wood workers in those days. There was a lot of "which moon" to cut the timber on and also throughout the stages of the seasoning process( which was a LONG one).

Another thought on this topic is ..... Just imagine the word when music was, by definition.....live.

Julian Griffiths
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