Arching and Voicing in Violin Plates

1999
AL#60 p.16   BRB5 p.399            
Graham Caldersmith                                                                                           

▪ Caldersmith offers this article as an aesthetic link with his more scientific treatise in AL#58. The shape of a fiddles sound can be explained technically, then interpreted into a wooden shape that must please the maker’s artistic eye. If you’ve been scratching your head over the meaning of all the technical gobbledygook, this may be the information you’ve been waiting for. With a drawing and 11 photos of the carving process.

This article has been nominated as one of the Guild’s best articles published before 2010.