Tag Archives: Franklin¸ Joe D.
Letter to the Editor: Investigations Into Making a Classical Guitar
2012
AL#112 p.3
Joe D. Franklin
▪ Joe Franklin’s thoughts and investigations on the harmonic aesthetics of the classical guitar.
Letter to the Editor: Guitar Dimensions and Harmonics
2001
AL#66 p.3 read this article
Joe D. Franklin
▪ Joe Franklin believed that the secret to good sound in classical guitars was the exacting relationship between interior dimensions and the wavelengths of sound.
Questions: Guitar Air Cavity
2000
AL#63 p.63 BRB6 p.65 read this article
Alan Carruth Joe D. Franklin
▪ Changing guitar dimensions while maintaining the same size air cavity.
Letter to the Editor: Wood Resonation
1997
AL#52 p.3
Joe D. Franklin
▪ Many builders maintain that a guitar top that varies in thickness offers better tone than a uniform top.Franklin offers technical reasons for why it is so.