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@yvanleterrible
It was kind of like that, but not only. At very first "touch" the instrument did not fell as comfortable as the other one from that maker...but when I heard my teacher playing it, I was pretty much decided already. When I then tried it again I had the kind of "feeling" you talk about...but I'm most certainly not going to base my decision on feelings alone...
Once I get the instrument I'll do a very thorough test-series with it and will try to figure out as precisely as possible what it can and can't do. I won't take any measurements or stuff like that, I'll just play it and listen to it in different acoustics because that's the most important thing of all.
A violin can sound like crap near the ear and be wonderful at a distance (which is what counts) or it can be the other way round...which is not good.
I would not like to play a violin that sounds like crap up close, but I'll most certainly not make the error of judging an instrument by the way it sounds near the ear...^^
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