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Old 10-12-2009, 04:04 PM   #11
smoothmoniker
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Originally Posted by classicman View Post
I am still at awe of the sound that man created from some wood and a few horsehairs.
The wood and horsehairs that he plays is consider by many to be the greatest violin ever constructed, the Stadivarious Soil. It was made by Stradivari, during a period called his "Golden Age", when he was making the best instruments he ever made.

To take nothing at all away from Perlman, whose tone is gorgeous, but he's not exactly playing a walmart violin.
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