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Well put. If the change can't be measured let it be and let's get on playing our instruments. I have noticed more changes in tone moving from one room to the next and when environmental conditions...

A true banjo killer. Really.

The moderators get paid by the number of words we read. This thread is going to send us to Hawaii on vacation. By all means, carry on.

I can't believe no one has said it has a great chop.

Not a bad protocol, actually. But this basic experiment, or at least one that's VERY similar to it, has already been carried out with guitars, and peer-reviewed, and published! The experimenters used...

Wait a minute . . . there are ten notes?!??!

Growing up with pro parents saved me from even starting to dream.

One of the confounding factors is that conscientious owners have a habit of adjusting things to compensate for changes in the instrument. And the manual changes are always in the direction of...

Aaagh. Well, the reason this is "unstated" is because none of us have said that wood doesn't change over time! You are ascribing to us things we did not say! So it is not an assumption. I think you...

This always pops into my head when this discussion comes around.

In science, the number one commandment when beginning work in a new (to you) area is "Thou shalt exhaustively survey the literature, lest thy make a fool of thyself". I see no evidence from what has...

Major loss of hemicellulose in wood is usually associated with the pyrolysis of wood at temperatures of 473 K (200 deg C). It may also be lost through fungal degradation of wood as part of wood...

@Explorer, didn't you cover all or most of that in post #14 & 18 here already?



Has anyone at all here denied that evidence of hemicellulose evaporation does not exist? Has anyone denied that...

I am so totally confused that I don't even remember what side I am on any more. Were we talking about picks?

As they say, extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. It's not up to me to prove that Bigfoot doesn't exist.

So, it did open up.

Egad! As I wrote earlier, there's no possibility of holding a rational discussion with someone who embraces the irrational. Not only can a meeting of the minds never occur, but there's not even a...

I think that was Keith Richards.

Now we're getting to my favorite part of these conversations. They always get to this point. Years ago we had a member that bought an inexpensive mandolin and then put it in front of his stereo...

I like how my turntable, amp and speakers open up over time by playing mamdolin ricords...

A blind sound test between a cheap and an expensive instrument would result in far more surprises than all this talk of an instrument opening up. In another thread I posted a Youtube link regarding a...

I don't think any of the "believers" have even defined what "opening up" is (or maybe I've missed it). What is it that you think is changing about a period of time? Does it get louder, a warmer tone,...

If you regard mysticism as being something beyond our reach, then you are standing on a shaky stool called "scientific understanding". It sounds strange, but if it's beyond reach, then you have...

Sorry, but the document you cited from Henry Strobel's website is an English translation of a "vanity piece" by von Reumont, and it is not peer-reviewed science. Sections of von Reumont's piece were...

The properties of sound are can be measured in a number of ways (acoustics), and there is also knowledge of human auditory perception and it's limitations (psychoacoustics), so an experiment could...