Re: Top and back graduations
Gilchrist has some good basic information on the directions an instrument can be taken and how he does it at his Web site. Heiden suggest that too thin a top looses richness of tone and too thin a recurve weakens the power that the plate gets from the rims.
Has anyone compared actual Loar Era snakehead and F4/2 top and back graduations to to their teen counterparts? I hope to measure my 13 A4 and 23 F4 this coming year and am interested in finding more actual snakehead and F2/4 arching and graduation measurements. I’m also interested in these instruments break angle. I often read of hybrid long neck ovals sounding more percussive like their cousin the F5 and wonder if this added pop is caused by increased break angle and centering of the bridge more than the longer neck dimension.
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