Talk:Joseph Nagyvary

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[edit] public reception?

Should the public reception bit at the end be taken out? it doesn't seem very helpful and it also offers a little too much opinion i think. Winkleton (talk) 14:39, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

  • I agree. Done. Yogi de (talk) 06:20, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Joseph Nagyvary

The section below has been moved to your page, since it is about you and your experiments, which have been controversial within the musical/lutherie community and have been rebuked.


" Texas A&M University biochemist Joseph Nagyvary succeeded in making a violin somewhere near the quality of a Stradivari by leaving the wood to soak in brine.[1] Because of the lack of land in Venice, during that period imported wood was often stored in the seawater of the Venetian Lagoon, where a type of decomposition had a slight effect on the wood. Nagyvary managed to acquire wood shavings from a Stradivarius violin, and under a microscope he found the natural filter plates in the pores between the tracheids were gone. He also treated the wood with a preparation of borax in the manner of Stradivari, who used it to prevent infestation.

By late 2003, Nagyvary refined his techniques and produced a violin that was tested in a duel with the Leonardo da Vinci of 1725, an instrument not from Stradivari’s golden period.[2] Both violins were played in each of four selections of music by violinist Dalibor Karvay behind a screen to an audience of 600 attended by 160 trained musicians and 303 regular concert goers. This was the first public comparison of a Stradivari with a contemporary instrument before a large audience where the audience would cast ballots on the performance quality of each violin. The consensus was that Nagyvary's instrument surpassed the Stradivarius in each category by a small margin.
" [citation needed] Milliot (talk) 20:20, 20 May 2008 (UTC)