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John T
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Posted -  01/06/2008  :  23:42
The first real acclaimed violin maker was Stradivari back in 1924, but his competetive makers, esp Steiner, were almost never heard of. It really all comes down to the volumn of air inside the 'box' of the fiddle, which should resonate at pitch 'A'.

Most instruments are designed to resonate around that pitch - Bb was very popular too especially for earlier intruments.
The concertina reed pan has an air pocket inside the reed vibration segment & inside action housing that resonates around this pitch too. though at differing harmonics.

The fiddle stick, or violin bow doesn't resonate.

There is a fable still believed that resin makes the hair slide over the string faster. In fact it makes it grip the strings like tiny teasles, and it is the juddering effect of this gripping which makes the string jump so fast that it vibrates, and creates the note.

Stradivari was the most well know but not neccessarily the best violin maker.
Dodd was the most well know and the best violin bow maker.
Jones, and some say Jeffries, was the best concertina maker.

If you can carve, then you can create.
Strings and things are not that obscure. They are just a bit select.

If you want to move into those fields, please let me know.

John T.


The string theory proves that everything is connected, though it may  just be in a different dimension.
I wondered where I was going wrong!


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