[CAUT] re: Strobocon

[Jeff Tanner]

On Friday, February 25, 2005, at 02:24 PM, Richard Adkins wrote:

> I believe in the last decade or two, luthiers have been
> using transducers at certain frequencies to
> adjust plate resonance. They also use "plate tapping"
> to find areas that need scraping. This is more
> common w/violins, violas,cellos, basses than guitars
> I think, but maybe they do it also.
>  

You are correct.  Some violin makers do use some version of electronic 
device to tune the plates.  I've also seen resophonic guitar (aka: 
dobro) makers use them to tune the plates, so I would think a guitar 
maker would find them equally as useful.

Jeff