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[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I dunno why the robot devil specified "solid" gold-- the original song just said gold. You can make violins out of metal, so theoretically a gold one could work.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Liquid, plasma and gas are even worse.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

After the diamond industry goes under maybe debeers'll start pushing the plasma gold wedding ring

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

We already do. You'd know if you weren't so poor.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

It would be really soft, so if you ever drop it, the sound would be completely wrecked.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (3 children)

and it would be heavy as fuck. if you held it by the neck it would probably bend. and you couldn't tension the strings.

probably a pretty shitty fiddy

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Was... was that the Fiddle the devil used in the competition? Cuz if so, no fucking wonder he lost.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

The song also didn't say pure gold. I bet someone could rig up a 14k fiddle.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If you rest it on your shoulder and are gentle when tensioning the strings, it can probably work, but don't go too aggressive on the strings or they'll probably snap (if gold) or bend the tensioners.

I'm going with "plausible" but totally impractical.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

how do you tension soft gold strings without them stretching?

[–] sugar_in_your_tea 1 points 5 months ago

Very... gently...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Ever heard of alloys? All things “gold” are actually alloys because pure gold is pretty damn useless for the reason you cited.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea 3 points 5 months ago

I thought people usually just did a gold coating around a more reasonable material. In this case, your fiddle would still be wood, but it would have a gold finish to look pretty.