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So you bought a possibly stolen instrument for dirt cheap and had you had the name of the rightful owner in the case and, almost no matter how one reads the sentence above, you made no attempt to...

Happened in February. The ever-wonderful Christie and team caught the scumbag -- good for them.

http://wkrn.com/2015/02/14/man-charged-with-stealing-2-mandolins-from-store-2-days-apart/

Here's a story from a couple of days ago updating the saga.

Agreed that the pricing is overly optimistic -- but given the circumstances I hope someone buys it for the asking price and that the...

These tests have been going on for a long, long time and every one produces effectively the same finding - the best of the new can't be reliably discerned by professionals from the best of the old.
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Of course a contemporary violin maker would have an interest in such a study. However, it looks like you're implying that the results were fudged as a result and I think that's a heck of a stretch.
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I agree completely with what you've written. Importantly, the test was focused on the perceptions of violinists who have had direct experience the best violins in the world (including Strads) during...

Bernie, I'm with you on this. I think there is something to the idea of additional sensory inputs. I have two very high quality mandolins by a top luthier who does 100% of his own work -- identical...

This is a *hugely* important point -- and thanks for raising it.

And it's true across the board with old instruments. Calling them a hybrid is spot on.

Importantly, nearly all of these...

I feel, this is an important point to be gleaned from the study. The question was not whether the old/new instruments were good vs. bad (or mediocre), the question being addressed was this: among a...