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  • BEAUTY LOST, BEAUTY FOUND: Violin maker nears end of `impossible' Stradivarian quest

    02/14/2004 6:45:06 AM PST · by em2vn · 11 replies · 909+ views
    The Asahi Shumbun ^ | 02-14-2004 | Booyean Lee
    BEAUTY LOST, BEAUTY FOUND: Violin maker nears end of `impossible' Stradivarian quest By BOOYEON LEE:Special to The Asahi Shimbun -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A young man was soothed by the sound of violins drifting on the night air. He went on to become one of the world's greatest craftsmen. To look at Jin Chang Heryern as the soft afternoon light streamed into his Tokyo workshop, one could easily picture Antonio Stradivari bent over his workbench in Cremona, Italy. Jin wiped a speck of dust from his newest creation, much as Stradivari must have done many times before he died in 1737, taking, some...