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Violinists and collectors particularly prize the fine historical instruments made by the [[Stradivari]], [[Guarneri]], [[Guadagnini]] and [[Amati]] families from the 16th to the 18th century in [[Brescia]] and [[Cremona]] (Italy) and by [[Jacob Stainer]] in [[Austria]]. According to their reputation, the quality of their sound has defied attempts to explain or equal it, though this belief is disputed.<ref name="NYT-201430407">{{cite news |last=Belluck |first=Pam |title=A Strad? Violinists Can't Tell |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/08/science/a-strad-violinists-cant-tell.html |date=April 7, 2014 |work=[[New York Times]] |access-date=April 9, 2014 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=Christopher Joyce|title=Double-Blind Violin Test: Can You Pick The Strad?|url=https://www.npr.org/blogs/deceptivecadence/2012/01/02/144482863/double-blind-violin-test-can-you-pick-the-strad?sc=fb&cc=fp|publisher=[[NPR]]|year=2012|access-date=2012-01-02}}</ref> Great numbers of instruments have come from the hands of less famous makers, as well as still greater numbers of mass-produced commercial "trade violins" coming from cottage industries in places such as [[Saxony]], [[Bohemia]], and [[Mirecourt]]. Many of these trade instruments were formerly sold by [[Sears|Sears, Roebuck and Co.]] and other mass merchandisers. | Violinists and collectors particularly prize the fine historical instruments made by the [[Stradivari]], [[Guarneri]], [[Guadagnini]] and [[Amati]] families from the 16th to the 18th century in [[Brescia]] and [[Cremona]] (Italy) and by [[Jacob Stainer]] in [[Austria]]. According to their reputation, the quality of their sound has defied attempts to explain or equal it, though this belief is disputed.<ref name="NYT-201430407">{{cite news |last=Belluck |first=Pam |title=A Strad? Violinists Can't Tell |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/08/science/a-strad-violinists-cant-tell.html |date=April 7, 2014 |work=[[New York Times]] |access-date=April 9, 2014 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=Christopher Joyce|title=Double-Blind Violin Test: Can You Pick The Strad?|url=https://www.npr.org/blogs/deceptivecadence/2012/01/02/144482863/double-blind-violin-test-can-you-pick-the-strad?sc=fb&cc=fp|publisher=[[NPR]]|year=2012|access-date=2012-01-02}}</ref> Great numbers of instruments have come from the hands of less famous makers, as well as still greater numbers of mass-produced commercial "trade violins" coming from cottage industries in places such as [[Saxony]], [[Bohemia]], and [[Mirecourt]]. Many of these trade instruments were formerly sold by [[Sears|Sears, Roebuck and Co.]] and other mass merchandisers. | ||
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