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It is no disgrace to be second fiddle to a Stradivarius. (Joseph Nagyvary and his attempt to reproduce 18th century Italian violins)

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| October 01, 1990 | Jepson, Barbara | COPYRIGHT 1990 Smithsonian Institution. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Joseph Nagyvary heads north on Agrimony Road, away from his office in the sleek new Blochemistry Building at Texas A&M University. Ten minutes later, the 56-year-old professor turns his white Toyota onto a dirt road and pulls up at a rundown agricultural field station on the edge of the sprawling campus in College Station, some hundred miles northwest of Houston. A herd of Hereford cattle grazing in a nearby pasture duly notes his arrival.

Here, in two cluttered, white frame buildings, Nagyvary oversees research into, no, not beef production, but violins-and extremely unconventional violins, at that. The Hungarian-born chemist claims that his instruments come ...

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