>>>Or if you're serious, look here http://www.bartruff.com/howto/
>>>It's a good place to start. I'm thinking about giving a cello a try next.
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>>I bet it's incredibly hard to make something that not only looks good, it is constructed correctly to produce the right sounds.
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>And then you hear the Russians (and a few others since then, probably) have made glass violins. The article said the sound was incredible - I wish I could hear it.

You won't hear this either, but I wonder if the sound is really better than a comparable quality one made from wood? I did some Googling and they look cool, but I thought much of the resonance of the sound was due to the wood itself.