Members of the panel will discuss the process they go through in setting up instruments for sound. Topics include assessing the instrument tonally, the soundpost, bassbar, and bridges.
All things being equal (playability, overtones, brightness, darkness, responsiveness, colors) if there are two the same in the above, but one is 25% “louder”, the soloist will take louder.
Robins sentence about Cellos with a great A-String which are never a problem in contrast to Cellos with a not so favorable A-String remind me of a famous pianist , who said about students or promising players who were in the process of development : a player with a great forte is rather the one who will make it`s way than a player with rather a good piano and not so great Forte !
