David Darling
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first heard Sep 2025
last heard 1 Aug
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So I think it's a story to tell.
It's not necessary uh you know to your everyday life to know about these things, but I just think it's an interesting story to tell.
that hasn't really been dealt with that much in the past.
Well, for for example, we all know that uh Stradivari violins sell for astronomical amounts, you know, millions of dollars.
Uh and these violins were made in the um, I suppose late seventeenth, early eighteenth century in Cremona area of Italy.
And there's something about them makes them different than, you know, other violins, otherwise they wouldn't be so expensive.
They have a very rich tone to them.
So what is it about them that is different?
Well, the wood, the woods from which these violins were made, came from forests that grew in what we call the Little Ice Age, which is about between the sixteenth and nineteenth century, where global temperatures were lower than normal.
Now, what this meant was that the trees didn't grow as much in summer as they would have done otherwise, and the growth rates were low throughout the year, similar in winter.
to summer.
So that meant that the woods uh in these trees is very hard.
And if you make a violin from
hard wood, it's going to have a greater resonance than if you make it from wood that has, you know, gaps in it, as it were, gaps in the tissue.
So why was there a little ice age?
Because the amount of heat that we got from the sun was lower.
Sun goes through phases where it gives us less radiation at times than others.
And and so these violins have this wonderful tone because of the density of the wood, which in turn is related to the behavior of our neighborhood star.
So you've got there a direct well, it it's not an obvious connection, but it certainly exists between the musical sounds that an instrument makes and the behavior of our nearest star.
What was it what was special about the Beatles?
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