That's really, really close to the first announcements from Joseph Nagyvary. He came on the violin scene in the mid 1970s with the stuff about soaked wood. I don't know right now where he got his ideas. He now sells violins, which are argued back and forth to be of a comparable quality to the Stradivarii. See:TUBEDUDE wrote:There is a violin maker in Collingswood NJ that discovered the pores in the Strad's and Guanieri's were open, making the top resonate across a wider spectrum. A lower,broader Q if you will. He soaked wood immediately after harvest to wash out the sap before it could harden. I think he said it took 6 months or more. Then he made some instruments, and they were.so good Itzhak Perlman bought several, and took them on tour, locking the Strad in a safe place. He said they had 95% of the magic in his Stradivari's. This was like 1975. The luthier's day job gave him access to an electron microscope allowing him to make the discovery.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Nagyvary
and
http://www.nagyvaryviolins.com/about.html
I quit following it after the first stuff about long-floated logs having the lignin dissolved out of them by soaking in seawater and his use of the enzyme lignase to speed this up in modern woods. Seems he's been working all that time.
I'd be very interested in the name of the violin maker you mention. I believe that Nagyvary Violins is in NJ.