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Um, we seem to be forgetting that a violin is a fretless instrument. Losing one string raises the tension on the remaining strings forcing the musician to modify their fingering. A really proficient player of fretless instruments does this all the time, though to a lesser extent usually, and singers of any proficiency do this constantly without thinking about it. The amazing thing about Perlman was not that he could find and hit an A at 882 Hz when needed, its that he was able to find replacements for notes that he simply could not achieve on a violin whose range may have suddenly been truncated at one end or the other. I say 'may' because the article doesn't state which string broke. In any case, I think the instrument being slightly out of tune is small potatoes when compared to the mental and physical gymnastics it would have taken to completely rearrange a violin concerto on the fly. My two cents, TP On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, David Beardsley wrote: > > in theory correct, but in practice, i recall that tuning individual > > strings on an instrument of the viol family is not as hectic as doing >so > > on a floating-trem equipped guitar, since tho the bridge is suspended, >it > > doesn't ride on springs (insert image of golden gate rising slowly up >and > > down through fog on giant slinkys...); nevertheless i suspect it would > > throw the other strings a bit (but not a lot) off... > > Exactly as I thought.