(ANSA) – BRUSSELS, 02 FEB – A new research published in The Strad Magazine, a monthly English magazine of classical music, reveals unpublished information on the structure of the violins of the historic Cremonese violin maker Stradivari. André Theunis, luthier from Brussels and Alexandre Wajnberg, musician and scientific journalist of the Free University of Brussels, began their research starting from the instruments and measurement systems used in Cremona in the 17th century. The two researchers noted that in the violin the distance of 483 millimeters from the nut to the lower part is almost equal to the ancient Cremonese unit of measurement, the arm. The solution was found in the internal space of the violin, from the Stradivari molds preserved in Cremona. Result: it is no longer necessary to introduce irrational mathematical values to explain the dimensions of the violins.
Theunis and Wajnberg hypothesis was based on the rules of musical proportionality known from the time of Pythagoras. The mathematical calculation was made in 1558 by the composer Gioseffo Zarlino and was dominant in the period in which the Stradivari were invented. (HANDLE).
Source: Ansa
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