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The importance of the tailpiece on stringed instruments has been underestimated. This paper introduces the technique of adjusting the tailpiece to match the instrument and unleash its full potential. Fine tuning the bridge for most beautiful tone color is explained too.
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the bridge and tailpiece can be tuned using tap tones in about 30 minutes.
.... A few words about tap tones on wood might be useful. For example, if we tap the center of a piece of violin plate stock (before it is carved and shaped) with our knuckle, and record the sound with a condensing microphone and a computer-based sound analyzer, the sound spectrum would look like figure one.
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..... In this article, I propose to describe the use of ‘tap tones' as a practical acoustical tool to fine tune bridges and tailpieces of stringed instruments. The technique is straight forward and once the underlying principles are understood one can achieve observable results in improved instruments sound quality (bridge tuning) and power (tailpiece tuning) .With experience and a few simple tools,
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Figure One
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