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Letter to the Editor: Guitar Dimensions and Harmonics

2001
AL#66 p.3               read this article
Joe-D. Franklin                                                                                           

▪ Joe Franklin believed that the secret to good sound in classical guitars was the exacting relationship between interior dimensions and the wavelengths of sound.

Letter to the Editor: Wood Resonation

1997
AL#52 p.3               
Joe-D. Franklin                                                                                           

▪ Many builders maintain that a guitar top that varies in thickness offers better tone than a uniform top.Franklin offers technical reasons for why it is so.