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...The two identically sized violin wood blocks are cut, one with the grain along the length and the other exactly cross-grained. When the strips are dropped against the metal bar, the cross grain strip sounds very different than the longitudinal grain strip, even though they come from the identical wood block and are identical in size; only the wood grain orientation is different. ...This has important implications for instrument makers. |
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...Of course I also make violins with traditional straight oriented wood grain. ...Currently I am finishing my first violin which has angled grain both top and back violin plates (and of one piece design and hot-water-formed as well!), this is my Opus # 19 vioin.... This violin turned out to have great projection and my violin instructor says it has power equal to his Italian concert violin that he said was the most powerful violin he had been able to play; in other words, a great success. |
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