’Even on the open strings you can tell the difference. The Strad has this resonance, clarity and warmth’
Violinist Ray Chen compares a $69 factory-made violin with the 1735 ’Samazeuilh’ Stradivari violin worth around $10m.
Watch: Ray Chen: What do you do when your E-string breaks in a concert?
Read: Players favour new violins over old in largest ever blind testing experiment
‘At Home With Ray Chen’ airs Tuesday 19 May and Wednesday 20 May
The research has been published in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Ray Chen gives a solo rendition of this cosy little number
The 1694 ‘Benecke’ violin is a masterpiece of Stradivari’s ‘Long Pattern’. Andrea Zanrè and Rudolf Hopfner take a look at this exquisite example, detailing its provenance and revealing what CT scans can tell us about its construction
A popular instrument of the Middle Ages, the vihuela de arco is only known today from contemporary references and pictures. Javier Martínez explains its significance in the history of bowed instruments, and debunks some of the myths surrounding it
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