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Making Matters: Testing an instrument’s sound using weight ratios

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Lead cr Veikko Jaatinen

In contrast to the normal practice of using tap tones to determine an instrument’s sound, Veikko Jaatinen presents a method based on the weight ratios of a violin’s various parts

In this article I argue that an exceptional-sounding violin can be built by focusing on the relative weights of its parts while completely ignoring the tap tones. This differs from the prevailing view, where tap tones are of primary importance…

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