Area Tuning the Violin

1984
DS#283   BRB1 p.20            read this article
Keith Hill                                                                                           

▪ Hill advocates tuning different portions of the plates to segments of the overtone system, using various tonic notes to suit the particular wood before you. No measuring tools are necessary during tuning since the actual thickness of the plate portions is of no consequence. He maintains that this is the tuning system used by the Italian masters.

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