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The Biotech Stradivarius
On Sept. 1, an audience of experts took part in a blind test of
five violins. One of the violins was a $2 million Stradivarius,
made in 1711 by the greatest stringed-instrument maker of all time.
Another was a modern violin made of wood that had been specially
treated by Professor Francis Schwarze of the Swiss Federal Laboratory
for Materials Testing and Research. Schwarze used two fungi to alter
Norwegian spruce and sycamore to closely resemble the wood Stradivarius
used, then commissioned a violin maker to build an instrument with
them. The listeners were asked to identify the Strad, and 113 picked
Schwarze's violin. The actual Stradivarius got only 39 votes.
One theory has it that Stradivarius' violins sound better because
the craftsman lived in a
brief climatic period that produced particularly high-quality wood
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