Violin Forum/Message Board

John... Just in case you missed it, Michael's book in draft and partial form is here....
http://violinmag.com

Unfortunately the chapter on arching and graduation is not on line yet... but there is ...

Michael,

I would sure like to see your future book that tells us how to correctly arch and thickness a violin. That would be a great leap forward for all of us.

I would love to read testimonials from those who have attended. But rather than just "Wow, a great workshop!", I would like to hear more specific comments. Did you learn how to make a better ...

thought it over.

And?

I'm just curious.
I've read your posts for many years, John. And I often wonder if you're trying to get violins to fit a particular scheme that you've already accepted as ...

thought it over.

Michael,

Thanks again for sharing your knowledge and insight. So let me re-phrase what I think I am hearing. Cremonese with top and back plates matched in the sense that stiffer backs require stiff ...

"If that's where you want to be making, where the money is, and that is indeed where the money is, tuning--forcing a violin to vibrate only in certain ways--is one of the various things that ...

Terry,

I can help you use Audacity to easily find M5 the main mode of the top and back plates. Email would be preferable.

John

It's back now.

I hope all the content is not permanently lost. That would be too bad.

I emailed Jeffrey Holmes. If I hear from him, I will post here.

John,

I am not ready to worry about the Harris formula. I am still trying to either support, or debunk, your formula. I expect to be getting 20 important data points in the next couple of weeks. Th ...

Would you tell me also what is the Harris formula exactly? You can just call the square root thingy "sqrt" as I know what it is already.

John M.

The Harris formula is, apparently ...

William,

Thanks for you thoughts. I have a new plot. Your data is included. One of your data points near 0.85 , 1.48, which is a green dot, because you thought it was a good violin, is right next ...

Hi John,

Thanks for posting the graphs.

I don't understand much about the stiffness ratios, but I have some understanding of lines. Is your line fit for all the data, or just the 'good' violi ...

William,

Thanks for the data. I have added it to the graph. The new equation for the line of best fit is kback = 0.77*ktop + 0.72

The graph is found here: http://jpschmidtviolins.com/images/vio ...