Ann Arbor violin-maker Joseph Curtin (who we've covered in this magazine) shows ina research study that much like the blind Coke-Pepsi test, worldclass violinists prefer newer instruments to the classics. We at Concentrate strive to show that sometimes the common wisdom of the past isn't really the best choice for the future. That applies to business, urban design and, now, world-class instruments.
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"In actuality, expert soloists pick new violins over antiques in blind tests, the research finds. What's more, the soloists performed no better than chance at guessing whether a given violin is newly manufactured or more than a century old."
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