...Gluing the liner strips to the 1mm (.040") thick rib stock raises the tap tone of the ribs. When the liner strips are first bent and glued in place and then the rib heights are shaped to their final size; tapping down on the future glue joint will produce a tap tone that is usually higher than the tap tone of the violin plate that will be glued down to this surface.
...My concept is to acoustically tune these glue strip surfaces so that their tap tone matches the tap tone of the violin plate that will be attached to it. Because the plate freuqencies may increase due to the action of untraviolet light or other factors, I recommend that you tune these liner strips to your goal frequencies for your violin plates; that is the frequency that you hope the plates will stabilize at when the instrument is mature.
...If I may suggest some ideal frequencies I would suggest that the top plate glue liner strips should be set at 322 HZ (vibrations per second) and the back plate glue liner strips set a t 353.5HZ; ideal violin plate frequencies.
...This way, the vibrating violin plates are not fighting the rib structrue when a vibration reaches the side of the plate but instead are in sync with the plate's vibration which may well help overall tone and power.
... Should the liner strip be too low already, the tap tone can be increased by removing material from the side of the glue liner strip. If you must do this, then leave the very top surface its full width as this is important for a secure glue joint.
