A 'tone hair' argument to parallel the 'tone wood' argument of guitarists?
Interesting...
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No that goes with the BRIDGE argument, which is the territory of the very excellent & capable Yuri Pochekin*.
You can't have that on a guitar.
A typical violin bridge takes times to age, and sounds pretty rough for the 1st 6 months.
Then there's the bass bar and soundpost argument, and the fingerboard adjustment which is about as close to non linear as you can imagine,
fortunately well sorted by above*.
Of course, then we run into the gut v syn + weight, strings argument.
That's the just the instrument!
Then there's the "hair quality" argument which you can't even begin to imagine, as it's plucked from the tails of semi wild horses in semi arid regions of Mongolia, then especially if like me you jump from country to country in mid winter.
A typical day in winter in Russia or China, and you can't even get the hair to loosen off, fully unwound. (ultra dry air).
Take it back to soaking western Europe and it grows magically an extra 5mm.
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