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Making Matters: Optimising sound spaces for good acoustics

2024-09-06T09:24:00

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Any luthier’s workshop requires a room or area with good acoustics to assess an instrument’s sound quality. Gideon Baumblatt and Simon Eberl explain how they optimised their sound spaces

In our work as violin makers, sound adjustments are part of our daily routine. While we are constantly striving to improve the sound of our instruments, we also have musicians coming into the workshop with their own. But where do all these sound adjustments happen? Most of the time they take place within our workshop space, and sometimes in a room designated for instrument testing…

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