[Martin Sheridan]

I heard another last week that I hadn't heard in sometime. The player said he owned a Frankenstein....the back and sides Italian, the top something else, the neck and scroll from something else.

Also, In line Arnold with what you are saying; most players don't "see" the instrument. When you spend your days and years as we do making and repairing you see the instrument in a much different way, like an artist might look at a face differently and more thoroughly than we do. When I first started looking at violins, for example, they all looked the same to me. Once I started to carve violins I began seeing all of the nuances. A former apprentice of mine who was a fine violist told me after carving her first bridge that she'd been looking at them all of her life and never knew they looked like that.