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Seems a touch to aesthetically pleasing to be truly optimal, given they have a partial fitness function in terms of radiated power I wonder what a GA would come up with.


There's your chance to out-run Stradivarius. The thing you're going to have to deal with next is how your improvement weighs in against playing an instrument for a few hundred years. You might be able to work this out by comparing a brand new regular violin with your improved model in a series of double blind tests for preference and then do the same thing every couple of years afterwards to see if there is a diverging trend.

One possible problem here is that the appreciation for classical music is not exactly on the rise and really high quality violins have limited applicability elsewhere. It's a matter of time before there will be more quality violins than violinists (and most of them will live in China where there is a fairly large continent of classical performers, and their numbers are actually on the rise).




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