Topic: SCIENCE - on December 8, 2003 at 1:31:16 PM CET
Cool Weather May Be Stradivarius' Secret
The secret of a Stradivarius violin's heavenly sound may actually have celestial origins. Now a tree-ring dating expert at the University of Tennessee and a climatologist at Columbia University offer a new theory — the wood developed special acoustic properties as it was growing because of an extended period of long winters and cool summers
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