While it's difficult to find much technical information on resonance and projection (power) as pertains to the lute, there is ample information on violins. I recently stumbled across this interesting concise handbook detailing the elements of violin sound: [1]http://www.schleske.de/en/our-research/handbook-violinacoustics.html Mark Linley's book, Lutes, Viols and Temperaments (Cambridge University Press, 1984) is required reading if you are interested in the math involved in strings, resonance, tuning and temperaments. Bob Lundberg had an engaging way of melding the science of acoustics and what he called the skill of craftwork in lutherie. His article on Galileo's lute makes excellent reading, as it contains this balance of science and seat-of-the-pants methods gleaned from examining old instruments. Here is the reference info on the article: Robert Lundberg, In Tune With the Universe: The Physics and Metaphysics of Galileos Lute, in Music and Science in the Age of Galileo, edited by Victor A. Coelho, 211-239, Dordrecht, 1992. RA > Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2015 23:57:07 -0500 > To: [email protected] > From: [email protected] > Subject: [LUTE] Resonance vs power. > > > Here is a web page on the interior bracing of theorbos: > > http://schreinerlutesandguitars.blogspot.com/2011/11/harmonic-barring-f or-kaiser-theorbo.html > > Near the end is a paragraph that begins "This photo shows the > ends of bars ...". The paragraph describes how to balance resonance > and power. Could someone explain the difference between resonance > and power? I would have thought the two terms more-or-less > synonymous. > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
-- References 1. http://www.schleske.de/en/our-research/handbook-violinacoustics.html
