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>Scientists have used 3D lasers and CT scans to measure the precise geometry of a Stradivarius, but so far no one has been able to replicate its sound.

To my understanding, most modern violins are patterned after the Stradivarius. Modern violins sound the way they so because of all the violins of the early Baroque, only Stradivarius’s violins (and to a smaller extent Guaneri’s) survived to the Classical and Romantic, where (with some modifications) became the Platonic pattern all luthiers followed for violin shape, size, and timbre.

So in a way, all modern violins replicate Strads because that is the only violin sound in existence.



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