Process for improving the tonal quality of stringed instruments

Details Process for improving the tonal quality of stringed instruments Process for improving the tonal quality of stringed instruments

1981-01-12

1983-10-04

Franklin, Lawrence R.

Music

Instruments

Stringed

84192, 84291, 144329, 144359, 144363, G10D 102, G10D 302

Patent

active

044071817

ABSTRACT:
To improve the tone quality of a stringed instrument which includes a wooden sounding board, a bridge resting upon the sounding board and supporting strings, one repeatedly removes small increments of wood from the sounding board in an area where the bridge meets the sounding board.

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Hutchins: "The Acoustics of Violin Plates", Scientific American, vol. 245, No. 4, Oct. 1981, pp. 170 et seq.

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