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I very much doubt it, frankly!

There are some critical realities about - only certain - violins from Cremona and those from the other ignored great luthier (Jacobus Stainer) on t'other side of the Alps (in the Tyrol?).

Many of these great violins did NOT respond well to the modifications of the 19th century, demands for greater loudness and sustain, and those are now lost to us.

The violins of Stainer were in their own time, more highly regarded for chamber music and for orchestral players#, than the later Strads, # along with Strads earlier / smaller-voiced models.

Bach and the Mozarts had several Stainers per family, even WAM's viola was a Stainer!

It is mostly the longer / louder concert models of Strad - and his competitors responses - that responded well to the mods, including 19C glues to refix the new* longer fingerboard, back, *bigger bass bar, *rib, and higher *bridge. Plus less ductile/stronger strings to allow for WAY-higher tension!!!!!! Giving greater LOUDNESS / sustain.

It is only THESE models that are the focus of all this genuflecting and surmise.

But, all this 'OooooHH woowwwww' stuff, is only a PART of the whole picture about the GREAT violins and their makers.

Taking a solely ROMANTIC view of this whole story is unlikely to give us the whole picture.

So THERE!


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