Thank you, Charles, I'll shut up for a while and read. David
----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles Browne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "bill kilpatrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> Cc: "LGS-Europe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 12:42 PM Subject: RE: [LUTE] Re: strings: direction of vibration? > > The following link to the proceedings of a 1983 conference of Swedish > guitar > makers is quite interesting and there is a reference to the acoustic > differences between plucking 'vertically' or 'in parallel' to the > soundboard. A > vertical 'pluck' producing a strong ,but short, tone and a parallel 'pluck > produces a weaker but more sustained tone. Jonsson makes the point that > the > direction of pluck is normally a mixture of these two extremes and the > resulting combination gives both the initial 'attack' and the ensuing > 'sustain'. There is a lot of background research information including > Chladni > Interferograms. > The whole publication is about 106 pages long! > have a good read! > Charles > > http://www.speech.kth.se/music/publications/kma/papers/kma38-ocr.pdf#search=%22 > Jonsson%20Acoustics%20for%20guitar%20makers%22 > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
