..This is your "TAP TONE Scale... at your fingertips"
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..These are the Tap Tone values that are used to fine tune the various parts of the Violin.
..I recommend that these values be used carefully to achieve the instrument's potential.
..This wood property is generated by a tap with the second knuckle of the middle finger or by any spruce or similar wood tapping tool. Let your tapper tool bounce off the surface you are adjusting, in order to get a 'clean' sound. (see 'useful tools' section.)
..Your goal is listen for the lowest part of the Tap Sound (ignore the high overtones).
..These recordings are made with my latest Tap Tone Wood Reference Tool at my violin shop in Salem, Oregon, USA October, 2017 A.D.
>Down ward tap across top of Bridge;
Side tap all along both sides/ends of Fingerboard; Back Plate, all over evenly.
>Neck along its length (upward tap); approximate 'blow' frequency of ff holes (sound holes)...Actually 196.2 HZ G-side and 199.8 HZ E-side; End tap of End Pin.
> Face side of Bridge; Down ward tap on End Pin; Tap Tone of Top Plate all over vibrating surface; Side tap of Sound Post; Tail Piece, both down tap all over and perimeter side tap, all around; and String Bar of Tail Piece; the side tap of the bass bar side of the kidney of the bridge.
>If you here this Tap Tone, (or below), you have a part that is tuned too low!
> Side Tap of Ribs, corner blocks and end blocks; Side taps of Bridge Edges; downward tap of Nut; Sound Post end taps; Down ward taps of tuning Pegs at collar;
