How a violin’s f-holes are shaped can influence the instrument’s lowest notes. MIT scientists, along with a Boston-based violin maker, analyzed how air moves through a violin’s f-shaped holes and ...
Chitwood (2014) investigated changes in the overall shape of Cremonese violins, an attribute which is generally believed to be of little significance to sound quality and power. He discovered that ...
A musical sound once thought to be heard only in our heads as a quirk of the ear canal is actually real. Violins can produce these unusual tones – and higher quality violins can produce them more ...