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Coaxing a tree into singing for a hundred years after it died.
name originFrom lute, though violins now dominate the trade
wood agingTonewood often dries decades before being touched
thinness obsessionViolin tops are carved to millimeter precision by ear
stradivari mysteryHis varnish recipe still isn't fully cracked
glue choiceHide glue lets future repairers take it apart