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The Cremona Sound

1984
GALQ Vol.12#2 p.24               
John Meng                                                                                           

▪ Meng quests the solution to a great eternal mystery: the search for the ‘Cremona sound’.

Violin Ribs/Latent Tension

1984
DS#287   BRB1 p.25            read this article
John Meng                                                                                           

▪ Meng suggests bending violin ribs using a backer of sheet aluminum to prevent shattering the wood, then goes on to suggest that tensions in the wood are often inadvertently built into instruments. Given time, the wood relaxes into its new shape, and the tone of the instrument improves at the same rate.