Thomas Knatt has been a GAL member off and on since the ’70s. He builds guitars and violins as well as Violin Octet instruments as designed by Carleen Hutchins, and teaches guitar making in Massachusetts and France.
▪ bio current as of 2012
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Questions: Restoring 1826 Panormo
2012
AL#109 p.71
Thomas Knatt
▪ Restoring a heavily damaged 1826 Panormo.
Questions: String Tension
2008
AL#95 p.67
Thomas Knatt
▪ Proportional deformation of an instrument in relation to the amount of time the instrument is under tension and the effect of strategic de-tuning on this.
Guitar Sound Criteria
1977
DS#44 BRB2 p.200
Thomas Knatt
▪ Knatt discusses the elements of classical guitar construction that help create the sound he is after, such as thinning the top, the characteristics of the action and saddle, accuracy of fret placement, and the effects of brace shaving. Mentions Carleen Hutchins.