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Echi -> RE: Lester Devoe has Stopped Building (Jan. 8 2025 12:19:29)
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Different factors really. I started looking at this many years ago when I read a Cremona booklet for violin makers on the topic and a a research made by some engineers.
Humidity affects any vibrating surface but it’s something playing a different role than aging.
To make it short you should consider the top like an ensemble of vibrating tubes with some sort of resins and lymph inside. The stuff somehow slowly moves according to the physical laws while gradually drying throughout the years.
It comes that a properly played guitar learn to be more efficient as the “stuff” consolidate causing less friction.
This is a rough simplification mainly applied to red spruce: it has been observed different behaviours in properly quarter sawn wood or , for instance, with different wood species. Like cedar. Anyway, to some extent any guitar improves when properly played.
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