In a message dated 26/03/2007 19:18:01 GMT Standard Time, chris.dale@... writes:
Harry gave them this sound via a master tape
No. Harry was up in arms about them having the sound. We have the 600 tapes on the reel that Bill brought over. The MKII violins were copied one note at a time from the reel to reel set. Painstaking but neverthless this is how it was done. You can hear the degredation from Harry's recordings to the MKII violins. The resulting MKII master would have been, at a guess, two generations down giving the violins that unique character.