Enlarge / A 1729 Stradivari known as the “Solomon, Ex-Lambert” on display at Christie’s in New York in March 2007.Don Emmert/AFP/Getty Images
Musicians and music aficionados alike have long savored the rich sound quality of the violins created by Antonio Stradivari, particularly at the dawn of the 18th century (the so-called “golden period“). Scientists have been equally fascinated by why Stradivari violins seem to sound so much better than modern instruments; it’s been an active area of research for decades.
A recent paper published in the journal Analytical Chemistry reported that nanoscale imaging of two such instruments revealed a protein-based
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