Relation of Science to Aesthetics in Lutherie

1986
AL#8 p.36   BRB1 p.290            
Michael Kasha                                                                                           

▪ Kasha firmly maintains that science has much to offer instrument design, but also claims that the best tone may be simply what the public is used to, and that this interesting variable can be tracked but not predicted. He believes that tone perception is as important as tone production.

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