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How Italian Violins Were Made - Joseph Nagyvary
Joseph Nagyvary, born in April 18, 1934, is a Professor Emeritus at Texas A M University and has spent years studying and analyzing violins made by Antonio Stradivari and Giuseppe Guarneri. From 1952-1956 he attended at Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest and in 1957 he went to Zurich to study under Paul Karrer. There he became fascinated by the violin when he had the opportunity to take lessons on an instrument once owned by one of his heroes, Albert Einstein. In 1963 he went to Cambridge to study under Alexander Todd at the laboratory there. He moved to America in 1964 and in 1968 he moved to Texas where he became a professor of biochemistry and biophysics at Texas A M University. In 1983 he devoted his research entirely to the study of recreating the legendary tone of violins made by the old masters. While working at Texas A M University as a biochemist Nagyvary succeeded in making a violin which he described as being somewhere near the quality of a Stradivari. Texas A M University biochemist Joseph Nagyvary succeeded in making a violin which he described as being 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 ...From:gillepspyViews:0 0ratingsTime:10:48More inMusic

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