On Friday, February 25, 2005, at 02:24 PM, Richard Adkins wrote: > I believe in the last decade or two, luthiers have been > using transducers at certain frequencies to > adjust plate resonance. They also use "plate tapping" > to find areas that need scraping. This is more > common w/violins, violas,cellos, basses than guitars > I think, but maybe they do it also. > You are correct. Some violin makers do use some version of electronic device to tune the plates. I've also seen resophonic guitar (aka: dobro) makers use them to tune the plates, so I would think a guitar maker would find them equally as useful. Jeff
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