Echi -> RE: How can I make my guitar less noisy (May 2 2016 14:05:37)
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Maybe you refer to the book of Ulrich, which is extremely nice btw. You can anyway catch some similarities. Unfortunately, as Anders said many times, the bracing patterns - taken alone - without other infos, like the shape of the struts, the size of the plantilla and the modulus of Young /weight of the top - can be deceiving. If you can take a braced top in your hands and flex it here and there, this would tell you something more. In the case of the Torres pattern, it supports uniformly the whole top, granting a certain cross grain stiffness, which I don't find too good for a flamenco guitar. To make an example, to judge a picture of a pattern it's a little like to judge a guitar just from you tube. There are things you can't get from there. But in case you had tried that guitar or a similar one before, then the same YouTube video can tell you a lot more. Coming back to the topic, sometimes the builder uses different bracing patterns but his guitars sound very similar. In fact is more important to understand the principle behind the use of a certain feature than the feature itself. Other example: Once I wanted to make a Reyes copy. I bought the GaL plan, surfed in Internet (read Tom's comments etc.) and studied the project but the result wasn't satisfying. Later on I had the chance to try carefully a Reyes, to look carefully inside and tap the top here and there. The result was way better. I got many more infos having the instrument in my hands and playing it.
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