Cremona violins : a physicist's quest for the secrets of Stradivari /
Kameshwar C. Wali.
- Hackensack, N.J. : World Scientific, 2010.
- 157 p. : ill.
Accompanying DVD-ROM contains video discussion of violin making and a demonstration of a Fry violin.
Luigi Tarisio and the violins of Cremona -- The rise and fall of the Cremonese art of violin making : Antonio Stradivari (1644c-1737) -- The anatomy of a violin and the mechanism of sound production -- Some historical notes on violin research over centuries -- William F. Fry and his quest for the secrets of Cremona violins -- William F. Fry and his quest for the secrets of Cremona violins (continued) -- Myth & reality of Cremona violins ; Fry's violins -- A convergence of science and art. HKBU library