Devon Pessler is a Ph.D. student in the School of Engineering Technology at Purdue, where she is working on characterizing wood for acoustic guitar tops. She plans to graduate in May 2024. She came to Purdue as a freshman and did so well, she decided to stay. Most of her work outside of classes has been on a program to provide engineering support to companies in Indiana. She is challenging the record for the largest number of support projects ever done by a student.
▪ bio current as of 2024
2024
AL#152 p.52
Devon Pessler Alyssa Fernandez Mark French
▪ A lot of people have a rough idea of how it would affect the sound of a flattop guitar to make the sides deeper, or to make the soundhole smaller. But now a college professor and two students have built the test apparatus and quantified the question. Read this article and see if you guessed right.
2023
AL#150 p.38
Mark French Devon Pessler Alyssa Fernandez
▪ Ya talk about rabbit holes. Research into guitar intonation just gets deeper and deeper. This article homes in on individual string compensation at the nut, plus small adjustments to the position of the 1st and 2nd frets. Industrial strength data collection. Heed the eggheads.