WOW!! Keith had a woman on who owns a $3.6 million Strada!

[madinmaryland]

:wow:

The sound is incredible, even on just a regular HD TV. Who ever said Keith did not have class!

[Occulus]

1. Is the mystery of why they sound so good still unsolved? n/t

[sakabatou]

13. They say it was due to the density of the wood he used.

[pokerfan]

14. It's the wood that makes it good

SA: What do you think is the secret of the Stradivarius instruments and others from those golden years of Italian violinmaking?

JN: I began developing my theory in the early 1960s, when I lived in Switzerland and made annual vacation trips to Italy. During those trips, I observed repeatedly that in cities like Milan, the wooden artifacts—furniture and also violins, violas and cellos—suffered considerable damage from woodworm. The wood, some of it, had holes in it like Swiss cheese. When I asked violin shops about similar damage to Stradivari violins, they told me that in Cremona there is practically no woodworm damage.

So in Cremona, people must have used a preservative, an insecticide. I looked in archival data from Venice for historical insecticide use. Pretty soon, I connected chemicals with acoustical effects—chief among them borax, which is very well known as an insecticide and is also well known among chemists as a powerful cross-linker of polymers. Nothing would make wood tighter and harder and the sound accordingly more brilliant.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=secrets-of-the-stradivari&print=true

[Parker CA]

2. That was so cool. Napoleon's violin. She played it beautifully. nt

[NNN0LHI]

3. Don't think she owns it. I think this Stradivarius like others are given to great violinists to use

And then passed on to another when their performing careers end. At least that is my understanding. I could very well be wrong.

She said just the bow is worth 200 grand.

Don

[H2O Man]

12. She paid $3.6 million

for it.

[LawnLover]

21. She owns it.

She bought it at auction.

[tridim]

4. I own a strat

copy. Made in 1919. :)

It looks exactly like her's except it has black tuning pegs. I think it sounds almost as good too.

[elleng]

5. NO ONE ever said Keith did not have class!

[madinmaryland]

7. If you hang out in GD long enough, you will hear....

:shrug:

[elleng]

8. ...anything, I know.

Of course, I meant 'no REASONABLE person . . .'

[madinmaryland]

18. There are reasonable people in GD??

:rofl:

[elleng]

19. Sure mad, you and me!!!

:toast:

:rofl:

[madinmaryland]

26. Well, we are Marylander's. But I don't know if I would classify myself as reasonable, though maybe.

"sensible"

:D

[elleng]

28. OK, I'll go for 'sensible!'

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

11. There's worse. I remember a RW troll pissing on Walter Cronkite when he died.

(Cronkite, not the troll, alas.)

To cheer everybody up, here's a six-wheeled F1 car. Ain't it cool?

[Phlem]

6. I've heard

That the trees used to make the originals are now non existent as he grew and handpicked the trees to make his violins.

-p

[elleng]

9. Would take A WHILE to grow 'the trees,' wouldn't it?

[Phlem]

30. what I meant was

as I recall the article, was that he had a grove (especially selected? who knows) and only selected particular trees at a particular time in the season. I did not mean he planted trees and waited for them to grow, now wouldn't that be silly.

I wish I could place the article but I get useless information from a lot of sources.

-p

[Liberal_Dog]

10. That Was Amazing

It really did sound like there were multiple instruments being played.

[handmade34]

15. THAT was a treat

a real joy to listen to

[Manifestor_of_Light]

16. That was very cool. Keith should do this AGAIN.

Something that has pissed me off for YEARS, is that after Johnny Carson retired, Jay Leno has NOT ONCE had any classical musicians on his show.

Johnny Carson had Beverly Sills singing Variations on Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, by Mozart. Yo-Yo Ma played his cello. Itzhak Perlman fiddled. People like Mario Lanza, Roberta Peters, Franco Corelli, and Arthur Rubinstein appeared on network TV. All that stopped when Johnny Carson retired from The Tonight Show. You can find some of those performances on YouTube.

Nobody hears ANY classical musicians on network TV anymore. The only time classical people are on TV is Great Performances on PBS.

If regular people don't get exposed to classical musicians, they won't realize how cool & interesting classical music can be. You don't have to be afraid of classical music or opera.
It's not something regular people can't appreciate.

[BarbaRosa]

17. Just imagine how it sounded in the studio.

We have decent speakers, but I can only imagine how it sounded live. wow

[LawnLover]

20. The woman has a name

Anne Akiko Meyers.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

22. Raise your hand if you thought it was a car, and didn't know it was a nickname for Stradivarius. -nt

[Fumesucker]

23. Weren't they made in the Soviet Union or East Germany? n/t

[muriel_volestrangler]

27. Italy originally (a Fiat), though may well have later been made under license in a Warsaw Pact

country.

Fiat Strada: Handbuilt by Robots: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fXV6KzhBbM

The British Leyland Ambassador: Handbuilt by Roberts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FU-tuY0Z7nQ

[madinmaryland]

29. My daughter plays the violin, and we have become very acquainted with these things.

BTW, we will NEVER be able to afford one.

Though she does play one (not a strad) that her great-grandfather had had since the early 1900's.

Edit to get the correct generation.

[taught_me_patience]

24. Who's Keith and what is a Strada? WTF is this?

[QC]

25. I used to have a Strada.