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Article #625129Re: Old tech (was Re: Microsoft's PDP-10s)
From: Mike Spencer
Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2018 21:27
Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2018 21:27
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Quadibloc <jsa...@ecn.ab.ca> writes: > On Saturday, August 4, 2018 at 12:56:53 PM UTC-6, Mike Spencer wrote: > >> There a smiths of both the present and recently past generations that >> we regard more or less as demigods. > > If you think making swords like the Vikings made is hard, how about > making violins like Stradivarius made? Just so. Oddly enough, maybe 3 years before I met Bert Shaw and was drawn to blacksmithing, I had a whole summer and fall free during which I played with the notion of going into stringed instrument work. Disassembled a cheapo guitar, reassembled and refinished it as a fair to middling one. Never did much with violins but learned a great deal about what's involved in the process of making one. And I really liked the movie _The Red Violin_. -- Mike Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada
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