Re: playing outdoors

in article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Turloch at
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 11/27/03 12:29 AM:

> After inspecting the instrument back in my shop, I found no open seams,
> and surprisingly it was still very structurally sound. I merely had to
> fit a new bridge, make a new sound post, fit new pegs on it and string
> it up. After a month of playing-in time, it acquired a very nice rich
> tone with a nice fat low register.
> 
> Hey, maybe we've stumbled on to the 'secret of Stradivari'... storing
> an instrument in an unheated metal shed for 25 years. :)


What a great story! Thanks for sharing it. Last night our family rented a
DVD of The Red Violin (when the movie first came out my 2 youngest
daughters, now 9 and 11, were too small to watch it. I was afraid they would
be too bothered by the death of Kaspar (sp?).) But after watching Josh Bell
play the Corigliano concerto with the Philly orchestra on Tuesday, we
decided to rent it and let them see it. I remember now what I didn't like
about the movie (namely, the absurd, campy elements of the story) but it was
also funny to note how the violin kept emerging unscathed, in perfect tune,
even, from graves and beneath floorboards, over a period of centuries. Your
story, Turloch, seems more remarkable (truth being stranger than fiction.)

Karen