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Cellular fiddles Part 2: X’s and O’s
In part 1, I described a plan to make a pair of violins with structural features that I think will have effects on the way...
Cellular Fiddles Part 1: Braces, Modes and the Possibilities of Shaping Sound
The idea of “Cellular Fiddles” has evolved out of two earlier projects. The Dimpled Viola made a feature of some of the visually interesting rough...
Turtle Fiddle
This is a follow up to the Dimpled Viola project and develops some of the ideas sparked by that project. With the viola I made...
Dimpled Viola, an Etude. Part 2, Finishing
In the first part of this study I constructed a viola emphasizing a part of the construction process, the carving, which is visually very interesting...