Swedes go high-tech to crack Stradivari code
The Washington Post, February 6, 2006
Swedes go high-tech to crack Stradivari code
Guy Gugliotta writes that nearly 270 years after his death, the genius of violin-maker Antonio Stradivari is still a mystery. Why does a Stradivarius sound the way it does? Why has no one ever been able to duplicate it? A Swedish team is trying a new way to find the answer using a computer model. Thomas Sparks, director of string instrument technology at IU's Jacobs School of Music, is quoted extensively in this article on the art of making violins and the reasons for which Stradivari's are the the gold standard.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/05/AR2006020500792.html
For more information on the Jacobs School of Music, go to: http://www.music.indiana.edu/
For a profile on Thomas Sparks, go to: http://info.music.indiana.edu/sb/page/normal/939.html
For information on IU's String Instrument Technology program, go to: http://www.music.indiana.edu/academics/study/sit.shtml
