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I just visited a violinmaker

Many great violins created during the glory of Cremona Italy are at the end of their lives. If you could see them from the inside out according to this expert and know how many drastic repairs some of them have undergone, you wouldn't buy them, you'd be horrified.

With all of our science noboby can recreate a great violin like those created in Cremona Italy about 300 or more years ago by the great violin makers. Even today, nobody can record and reproduce the sounds they can make accurately. I feel very priveleged to have lived in a time and place when I was able to hear them while they still sung in their full glory. Future generations won't have that chance. The fault lies in the technology, the violinmakers gave us over three centuries to capture their sound, learned their secrets and we have failed. It's our loss, not theirs, they did the best that they could have done, we didn't. It's our loss and the loss of future generations.

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