https://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/404075
標題: | Chemical distinctions between Stradivari’s maple and modern tonewood | 作者: | HWAN-CHING TAI Guo-Chian Li Shing-Jong Huang Chang-Ruei Jhu Jen-Hsuan Chung Bo Y. Wang Chia-Shuo Hsu Brigitte Brandmair Dai-Ting Chung HAO MING CHEN Jerry Chun Chung Chan |
關鍵字: | Cremona; Italian violin; stringed instrument; wood aging; wood treatment | 公開日期: | 2017 | 出版社: | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 來源出版物: | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 摘要: | Violins made by Antonio Stradivari are renowned for having been the preferred instruments of many leading violinists for over two centuries. There have been long-standing questions about whether wood used by Stradivari possessed unique properties compared with modern tonewood for violin making. Analyses of maple samples removed from four Stradivari and a Guarneri instrument revealed highly distinct organic and inorganic compositions compared with modern maples. By solid-state 13C NMR spectroscopy, we observed that about one-third of hemicellulose had decomposed after three centuries, accompanied by signs of lignin oxidation. No apparent changes in cellulose were detected by NMR and synchrotron X-ray diffraction. By thermogravimetric analysis, historical maples exhibited reduced equilibrium moisture content. In differential scanning calorimetry measurements, only maples from Stradivari violins, but not his cellos, exhibited unusual thermooxidation patterns distinct from natural wood. Elemental analyses by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry suggested that Stradivari's maples were treated with complex mineral preservatives containing Al, Ca, Cu, Na, K, and Zn. This type of chemical seasoning was an unusual practice, unknown to later generations of violin makers. In their current state, maples in Stradivari violins have very different chemical properties compared with their modern counterparts, likely due to the combined effects of aging, chemical treatments, and vibrations. These findings may inspire further chemical experimentation with tonewood processing for instrument making in the 21st century. |
URI: | https://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/404075 | ISSN: | 0027-8424 | DOI: | 10.1073/pnas.1611253114 https://doi.org/10.1073%2Fpnas.1611253114 32035687 |
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