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Player preferences among new and old violins

Samuel Zygmuntowicz, a noted violin maker, however said the study is "highly credible" and that it "puts cold water on some old myths and should certainly be good news to young musicians who yearn for violins that they will never afford."

Earl Carlyss, a member of the Juilliard String Quartet, was critical of the study, saying it used totally inappropriate methods of evaluating the quality of the instruments.

In 2010, Claudia Fritz, a researcher from the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris, and the violinmaker Joseph Curtin organized a double-blind study, which was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, in which 21 professional violinists tried to identify which violins were old (including 2 Stradivarius and a Guarneri 'del Gesu'), which were new, and which they preferred.



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