It's Friday. I thought I'd change the subject and show something I think is interesting. A few months ago I was perusing the cd of the catalogue from the Stradivari Museum and came across something that caught my eye. A bit of effort turned up this little tidbit.
Below are two images. The first is a template from the Stradivari Museum (MS786) and the second is a CT scan of a del Gesù violin (I won't say which one, because I don't know who owns it now). The measurements I have for the lengths are 346 mm and 345.8, so I scaled them as accurately as I could in Illustrator.
and here they are overlaid
Interesting, no?