With those luthiers in mind, is there any other instrument which rates the old over the modern, quite as much as Stradivarius' and del Gesu's fiddles and Loar's mandolins? Was there ever a blind test made between Loar's instruments and those made by modern mandolin makers of comparable experience and expertise?
"Why is it that musicians and scientists reach different conclusions when considering the same data?"
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