{"id":842,"date":"2014-04-07T15:15:20","date_gmt":"2014-04-07T20:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=842"},"modified":"2014-04-05T13:31:10","modified_gmt":"2014-04-05T18:31:10","slug":"is-a-stradivarius-violin-really-superior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/is-a-stradivarius-violin-really-superior\/","title":{"rendered":"Is a Stradivarius violin really superior?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_843\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/violon-13-23367-small-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-843\" class=\"size-full wp-image-843\" alt=\"Soloist Ilya Kaler tests a violin during the study. Kaler wears modified welder\u2019s goggles to prevent instrument identification by eye. (Credit: Image courtesy of Stefan Avalos)\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/violon-13-23367-small-2.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/violon-13-23367-small-2.jpg 550w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/violon-13-23367-small-2-300x168.jpg 300w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/violon-13-23367-small-2-500x280.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-843\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Soloist Ilya Kaler tests a violin during the study. Kaler wears modified welder\u2019s goggles to prevent instrument identification by eye. (Credit: Image courtesy of Stefan Avalos)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Are antique violins, such as those made by the Stradivari family, really as great as their reputation suggests?<\/p>\n<p>A new study organized a blind test of 12 violins &#8211; 6 new ones and 6 antiques, including 5 by Stradivari. In the end, 6 of the 10 soloists selected a new violin as their preferred instrument; they also failed to distinguish new violins from old ones at levels better than chance.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/jrnls\/pnas\/pdfs\/pnas.201323367.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">o<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/jrnls\/pnas\/pdfs\/pnas.201323367.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">riginal research paper<\/a><\/span>\u00a0will be published in the\u00a0<em>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/em>\u00a0on\u00a0<strong>April 7, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Names and affiliations of selected<\/strong><strong>\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Claudia Fritz, Universit\u00e9 Pierre et Marie Curie<\/h4>\n<h4>Joseph Curtin, Joseph Curtin Studios<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are antique violins, such as those made by the Stradivari family, really as great as their reputation suggests? A new study organized a blind test of 12 violins &#8211; 6 new ones and 6 antiques, including 5 by Stradivari. In the end, 6 of the 10 soloists selected a new violin as their preferred instrument; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":843,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/violon-13-23367-small-2.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-dA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=842"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":849,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions\/849"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}