Do violins have an "effective spine" as well, or can you build a violin out of Loomis Glass/carbon fiber? I would like to see a 5wt carbon fiber violin (maybe that would be a cello). Mike
Allan Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Allan Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Henk sayeth:
>Yep, but stresses on musical instruments are different in direction.
>Maybe I'm using the wrong terms here, but a violin's glue joints are
>under a stress perpendicular to the glue joint's plane, whereas a
>bamboo rod's glue joints are under a stress tangential to their
>plane.
Not only that, but the actual vector direction varies all over the
place, whereas in the violin it is
in only one direction.........unless you drop it!
Allan
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