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gettyimages.no
The page describes a 19th century painting of Antonio Stradivari in his workshop, displayed in Cremona's town hall Violins' Room, Italy. It references historic Cremona violin makers including Andrea Amati, Nicolo Amati, Andrea Guarneri, and Antonio Stradivari, and notes auction prices for Stradivarius instruments in 2005 and 2006.
gettyimages.ca
The image features Giovanni Battista Morassi, described as the master of the violin makers of Cremona. The page discusses Cremona’s tradition of high quality string instruments and mentions famous makers such as Andrea Amati, Nicolo Amati, Andrea Guarneri, and Antonio Stradivari, with notes on auctions and acoustics.
tarisio.com
The Tourte cello bow known as the Ex-Romberg sold for $196,000 at a Tarisio online auction, setting a world record for a Tourte bow. The anonymous buyer’s identity remains undisclosed. The sale contributed to a total auction gross of over $4,000,000, marking the second highest musical instruments auction on record.
nature.com
The article discusses how antique violins, including a Stradivari, may owe their tone partly to chemical treatments of wood. Nagyvary and team analyzed wood from antique and modern instruments, finding that hemicellulose in Stradivari and Guarneri violins showed degradation likely due to chemical treatments such as salts used to protect wood from pests.
phys.org
Joseph Nagyvary, a professor emeritus of biochemistry at Texas A&M University, and collaborators Joseph DiVerdi and Noel Owen published findings in Nature indicating that chemicals used to treat the wood and varnish of Stradivari and Guarneri violins are responsible for their unique sound. The work, which builds on 30 years of research, suggests oxidizing agents in chemical treatments contributed to the instruments' acoustics, rather than the wood alone.
telegraph.co.uk
The article reports on a study by Prof Joseph Nagyvary of Texas A&M University and colleagues Joseph DiVerdi and Noel Owen analyzing violin wood to understand how Stradivari instruments achieved their sound, suggesting chemical processing of maple wood may have preserved and enhanced tone.
nbcnews.com
The article discusses chemically treated wood potentially used in Stradivari and Guarneri del Gesu violins. Texas A&M’s Joseph Nagyvary and colleagues analyzed instrument wood using magnetic resonance and infrared spectroscopy to suggest preservation methods may have influenced acoustical properties.