I love to think , read , surf at nighttime from 5 PM ro 9 AM. Thats why all my images are sunsets or twilight zones. I am living in a distant edge of istanbul and I have no business with thousands of concerts , city life , museums or the exhibitions. I am living in 400 meters diameter around my home and might be photographed is photographed.
But if you have astradivarius , you can do many things , for example modeling its behaviour in your mind , record its notes one by one with different speed a nd pressure attacks , different vibratos and create a digital stradivari in your computer which will live or post transform an ordinary violin. You can go to different concert halls and listen its behaviour.
You can take its modal photographs , make modal analysis , take measurements , x ray , tomography and sell it with cd.
If you are generous , you can strip some lac from the surface and send to the analysis.
You can make density , dendrachronological analysis of the instrument and make to makers a database .
I owned 6 Leicas and always conducted analysis. You can buy a Summaron , send to zeiss , get detailed zernike and mtf tests , conduct these tests to every element , measure the curves and try to construct a meaningful explanation to its 3d look and design methodology.
If you have a stradivari , there will be lots of pianists at around. They can play and you can listen. May be your records pay some of your investment also.
Umut