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A website for the serious amateur violin maker, restorer and tinkerer.  A violin front and back (the plates) can be tuned using tap-tones. So, using tap tones, adjust the front and back plates of a violin to get the best sound, the kind of sound you want, and make an instrument that can be easy to bow.

This site has something for you if you are either making a violin or you want to improve a low cost violin or viola.

By tuning the top & back plates you can get a good instrument that responds well to the bow and that can sound like a £1500 instrument.
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 Last updated on the  14th Aug ‘08

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 Here are the very specialist articles on Fourier Anaysis for people who need to get out a lot more:-

 http://ptolemy.eecs.berkeley.edu/eecs20/week8/examples.html

http://www.eecircle.com/applets/001/001.html

http://www.jhu.edu/~signals/phasorlecture2/indexphasorlect2.htm

http://www.ele.uri.edu/~hansenj/projects/ele436/lab2.pdf

http://www.falstad.com/fourier/index.html

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