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"Player preferences among new and old violins" is a scholarly paper published in the ''Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences'''' ''in January 2012. It describes a double-blind study in which researcher Claudia Fritz of the Pierre and Marie Curie University and violinmaker Joseph Curtin asked judges and participants at the 2010 International Violin Competition of Indianapolis to choose the violin they preferred from a pool of three modern violins, two Stradivariuses, and one Guarneri 'del Gesu'.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Double-Blind Violin Test: Can You Pick The Strad? )〕 Fritz and Curtin found that participants most frequently chose a new rather than old violin. This result—which contradicts widespread belief among violinists that the best 16th and 17th century Golden Age violins are superior to the best modern ones—attracted significant media attention. ==Experiment== Fritz and Curtin performed the experiment at the Eighth International Violin Competition of Indianapolis (IVCI), selecting participants for the experiment from the competitors and judges. They held the experiment in a dim room, with participants wearing welding goggles so they could not identify the instruments. Additionally, perfume placed on the violin chin rests prevented identification by smell. The experiment involved three tests: * Head-to-head challenge with 10 pairs (one old, one new) of violins: Each violin was played for one minute. The subjects were not told that the pairs contained one old and one new violin. Then, each subject judged the instruments in a pair on tonal color range, projection, playability, and response.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Study shows even professional musicians can't tell old master violins from new )〕 * Pick-one challenge: All six instruments were available to play, however desired, for 20 minutes, with the subject instructed to "pick one to take home." * Concert challenge: Zachary DePue, the concertmaster of the violin competition, played the instruments on stage in front of the 1500 violin competition participants. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Player preferences among new and old violins」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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