The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #85605   Message #1869150
Posted By: pdq
26-Oct-06 - 11:18 AM
Thread Name: do you recommend cutaway on guitars?
Subject: RE: do you recommend cutaway on guitars?
The Helmholtz resonator is tuned to one frequency (pitch, in music) and amplifies only that frequency. Such resonances are the source of "wolf tones" in all wood-bodied string instruments. One of great arts of instrument building is to remove major resonances. Numerous minor resonances spread over the entire frequency range of the instrument is the best one can do. Instrument building is both art and science.