{"id":1717,"date":"2010-01-07T05:51:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T18:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2010\/01\/07\/stradivari-violins-sunspots-and-the-maunder-minimum\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T12:02:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T02:02:13","slug":"stradivari-violins-sunspots-and-the-maunder-minimum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2010\/01\/07\/stradivari-violins-sunspots-and-the-maunder-minimum\/","title":{"rendered":"Stradivari, Violins, Sunspots, and the Maunder Minimum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgIXGCA_gYthhUbACQotD7yd2g-mIOAYi2qSgbYOmusqfjmiSNZIt6Qa0Y_FG6_5_jmJx26JwwMfHsKjAFkJTzcugT1Lt_5qSQJd2sptjsRYjVbfY9pzOcCPIVSPnyhP5OaXVSYjFqfgdc\/s1600-h\/stradivari.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 384px; height: 300px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/stradivari.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5423873385454736562\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>I mentioned Antonio Stradivari in SolderSmoke 120, but I felt a bit guilty about it, because there wasn&#8217;t much of a connection to radio. But Nick, KB1SNG, has come to the rescue. Nick sent me this interesting article that discusses POSSIBLE connections between the quality of Stradivari&#8217;s violins and the sunspot count. Check it out:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2004\/01\/0107_040107_violin.html\">http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2004\/01\/0107_040107_violin.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A recent article in The Economist alerted me to the fact that OM Stradivari was busy in the shack, churning out mechanical audio oscillators well into his 90&#8217;s. I thought that Stradivari&#8217;s late start, and his success in his senior years makes him an inspiration for many of us. A quick look at the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Antonio_Stradivari\">Strad-Wiki page<\/a> confirms this: Stradivari didn&#8217;t really hit his stride until age 54, and did his best work between age 54 and 81.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned Antonio Stradivari in SolderSmoke 120, but I felt a bit guilty about it, because there wasn&#8217;t much of a connection to radio. But Nick, KB1SNG, has come to the rescue. Nick sent me this interesting article that discusses POSSIBLE connections between the quality of Stradivari&#8217;s violins and the sunspot count. Check it out:http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2004\/01\/0107_040107_violin.html &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2010\/01\/07\/stradivari-violins-sunspots-and-the-maunder-minimum\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Stradivari, Violins, Sunspots, and the Maunder Minimum&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[140,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-italy","category-solar-cycle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1719,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717\/revisions\/1719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}