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Jean-Philippe Echard

A man wearing glasses and a black sweater over a checkered shirt holds a violin, with a gray background behind him.

French conservation scientist at the Musée de la Musique in Paris, whose group used infrared and Raman microscopy on samples taken from five Stradivari instruments. The 2009 results, published in Angewandte Chemie, dismantled a century of speculation about secret recipes by showing the varnish was an ordinary oil-and-resin system of the kind any contemporary cabinet-maker would have known.

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