Because the few remaining instruments can fetch 1000000 of dollar at auction sale , scientists have been trying to pinpoint take what make a Stradivarius sound so phenomenal so they can be recreated . It ’s part due to a rare eccentric of wood used by Antonio Stradivari that a Swiss Mrs. Henry Wood researcherhas manage to artificially recreateusing a couple of metal money of fungus .
work in the previous 17th and former 18th centuries Stradivari had access to a extra type of wood that raise between 1645 and 1715 when temperatures stayed on the cool side all year around . During those geezerhood , the trees grew very slowly resulting in a particularly dull wood with high-pitched flexible property . find wood with standardized properties is downright impossible these days , but Professor Francis W. M. R. Schwarze , a wood researcher at the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology , has discover a way to artificially recreate it .
It turns out that two specie of fungi — Physisporinus Vitreus and Xylaria Longipes — can decompose Norway spruce and lacewood tree in such a path that increase the wood ’s density while retaining its power to resonate , immensely improving its tonal quality . Lumber that ’s been cover with the fungus is known as mycowood , and working with modern fiddle Jehovah Martin Schleske and Michael Rhonheimer , Schwarze created a fiddle with the stuff and pitted it against a Stradivarius from 1711 . amazingly , in a blind exam a panel of experts was ineffectual to differentiate the imitation Stradivarius from the real matter .
Besides requiring expert to up their game when it comes to spot pretender , the fungal proficiency means that all violinists might have the chance to play — and mayhap even afford to buy — an legal instrument that sounds like it was craft by Stradivari himself . [ ScienceDailyviaGeekosystem ]
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