Monday, November 10, 2014
RE THE DARIO D' ATTILI FALLACY OF VIOLIN EXPERTISE BUBBLE
He was compelled, by an expertise market imperative, to opine, almost immediately, what a particular item for scrutiny is.
His attributions, generally, aren't worth the scrap of paper they were written on.
His certificates 'flooded the market', bubbled, so to speak, the market, not that there wasn't, already, a surfeit of fraud.
His attributions, generally, aren't worth the scrap of paper they were written on.
His certificates 'flooded the market', bubbled, so to speak, the market, not that there wasn't, already, a surfeit of fraud.
Wednesday, June 28, 2017
HORACE PETHERICK VIOLIN REPAIR MANUAL AND GUARNERI
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/26878/26878-h/26878-h.htm
This is a choice discussion, even someone named Roger Hargrave got involved, maybe the real one:
https://maestronet.com/forum/index.php?/topic/330360-violin-restoration-ethics-cannibalizing-old-instruments/&page=3
They tend not to criticize Petherick's Guarneri book too much, most of them. They try to defend him, as a product of the knowledge of his time. Etc.
I think he was asked and paid to write this book, by the editors of The Strad, who sponsored it, who had used him as a trusted expert witness in the past, and who also had interests in the trade, to intentionally mislead not only retail customers, but also, probably, other merchants everywhere as well.
It seems to me that they succeeded in that, with Petherick's book, even down to the present moment.
This is a choice discussion, even someone named Roger Hargrave got involved, maybe the real one:
https://maestronet.com/forum/index.php?/topic/330360-violin-restoration-ethics-cannibalizing-old-instruments/&page=3
They tend not to criticize Petherick's Guarneri book too much, most of them. They try to defend him, as a product of the knowledge of his time. Etc.
I think he was asked and paid to write this book, by the editors of The Strad, who sponsored it, who had used him as a trusted expert witness in the past, and who also had interests in the trade, to intentionally mislead not only retail customers, but also, probably, other merchants everywhere as well.
It seems to me that they succeeded in that, with Petherick's book, even down to the present moment.
But he was right, during our last telephone conversation, when he said to me: "The violin will speak for itself."