{"id":545,"date":"2012-01-03T07:00:55","date_gmt":"2012-01-03T12:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=545"},"modified":"2012-01-03T07:00:55","modified_gmt":"2012-01-03T12:00:55","slug":"if-you-dont-know-its-not-a-stradivarius-will-it-still-sound-as-sweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2012\/01\/03\/if-you-dont-know-its-not-a-stradivarius-will-it-still-sound-as-sweet\/","title":{"rendered":"If you don&#8217;t know it&#8217;s not a Stradivarius, will it still sound as sweet?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/207.112.70.56\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/strad.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-546\" title=\"Strad\" src=\"http:\/\/207.112.70.56\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/strad.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/01\/strad.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/01\/strad-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/01\/strad-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/a>Here&#8217;s something fun, courtesy of the <em>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/em> in the United States: Researchers tried a double-blind test to see if professional violinists &#8212; not listeners &#8212; could tell the difference in sound between two Stradivarius, one Guarneri del Jes\u00fa and three modern violins. Only three people out of the 17 study subjects could pick out a Strad.<\/p>\n<p>I failed the Old Master test, too &#8212; and had the benefit of a 50-50 opportunity to get it right, thanks to an enlightening little story on National Public Radio you can catch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/deceptivecadence\/2012\/01\/02\/144482863\/double-blind-violin-test-can-you-pick-the-strad\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>John Terauds<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s something fun, courtesy of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in the United States: Researchers tried a double-blind test to see if professional violinists &#8212; not listeners &#8212; could tell the difference in sound between two Stradivarius, one Guarneri del Jes\u00fa and three modern violins. Only three people out of the 17 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[36,39,42,68],"tags":[6463],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/01\/strad.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-8N","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}