Re: Violin Plate tuning using Modes

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> "PeteSchug" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>> If you want to get techinical there seems to be no limit to how technical
>> you can get. Martin Schleske has written in The Strad that he can to
>> acoustic copies of violins.
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> Martin is a nice guy.   I looked into the purchase of one of his instruments
> but they start at $17k usd, ouch!  Then I saw some other excellent american
> luthiers who start at $23k usd, so price is all relative.   Definitely not
> an internet shopping kind of purchase.
> 
> Tien.
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Hi Tien,

At my age I think that the length of the waiting list is as important as the
price.

I can afford a few dollars, but I can't affort too many years of waiting.

Then again, I have to admit that if I did buy a fiddle for that price I
would probably have to play it on the street in the hope of making enough
money to eat with!

Actually, I am as addicted to making fiddles as playing them. Right now I am
engaged in stuffing video equipment in an RC airplane, which is also fun.

Maybe next trip to Vermont I will get the chance to look at some more wood
and get back to working on violins. But I will bring an airplane to toss off
some of the local hills, and maybe fly full size gliders up around
Sugharbush.

I guess one of the differences between someone like Martin Schleske and me
is that Martin and people like him manage to have one overwhelming interest
in life and I keep orbiting between several lifelong passions. This is not
to say that I could be as good as Martin, but it is to say that I will
probably never give myself the chance since I am more like Frog in Wind in
the Willows.

Pete