[Arny Krueger]

Can professional musicians tell the difference between cheap and expensive
instruments in a blind test. Can they tell the difference between a synth
and an acoustic instrument?

Here's the video - in Swedish (sorry).

http://svt.se/svt/jsp/Crosslink.jsp?...d=puff_1413321

I've read partial translations of this video and the answer is often no.
Much of the rest of the time the answer is "it is very hard".

"Even the electrical piano was mistaken for the Steinway."

"Among them was comparison of a cheap electric guitar to a Fender from
the 50?s valued at USD $65000 and a real Steinway grand to an
electrical one and a cheap USD $ 150 practice Violin to a Stradivarius
valued at
USD $1200000."

"The Violin player Linda Lampenius got the Stradivarius correct but
admitted that it was very difficult to hear any difference between the
cheap practice violin and the Stradivarius."