What most interested me was
"The researchers also discovered that one-third of a wood component known
as hemicellulose had decomposed in Stradivari and Guarneri’s instruments.
Because hemicellulose naturally absorbs a lot of moisture, the effect was that the instruments had about 25 percent less water in them than more recent models."
I am guessing the two instruments were left in the same environment for the
the right amount of time before testing.
And they were built to the same specs (recent models) ?
Merry Christmas while it still is over there!
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