7.6 Tonal adjustment in the violin: the soundpost

PREVIOUS SECTION

After that lengthy discussion of the physics behind bridge adjustment on a violin, we now turn to the other major resource of a “tone adjuster”: the soundpost. This section will draw extensively on work done by Myles Nadarajah as part of his PhD project [1].


[1] Myles Cameron Nadarajah, “The mechanics of the soundpost in the violin”, PhD dissertation, University of Cambridge (2018).