WoodTonePageTwo

..As I had bought a fairly wide selection of violin making wood over the years; I used the Wood Tone concept to measure it. These charts summarize, perhaps, the typical selection of tone wood the instrument maker has to choose from:

..Top Plate Spruce Wood; (39 top plates in stock)....
..Just 50% of this tone wood was on the Wood Tone Scale and just 28% were at the 'preferred' (my estimate) 198 HZ Wood Tone.

..Ebony Fittings Wood; (57 Finger Plates in stock)....
..Just 24% of this tone wood was on the Wood Tone Scale and just 21% were at the 'preferred' (my estimate) 213 HZ Wood Tone.

..Neck Maple Wood; (43 pieces in stock)....
..Just 54% of this tone wood was on the Wood Tone Scale and just 42% were at the 'preferred' (my estimate) 242 HZ Wood Tone.

..Back Plate Maple Wood; (28 1/2) in stock)....
..Just 61% of this tone wood was on the Wood Tone Scale and just 32% were at the 'preferred' (my estimate) 242 HZ Wood Tone.

..What does it mean as far as producing a fine sounding violin?
...Let us estimate that the most important pieces for good timbre are the top and back plates; the ribs; the neck block; the fingerboard; the (6) internal wood blocks; the bridge; the tailpiece; and the bass bar:
..Our minimum goal is to select these nine parts correctly. The odds of our accomplishing THIS step, for just these nine parts is thus:
>>For being all on the wood tone scale:
(1 times 0.48) nine times which comes out to: 0.0013; equal to one chance in 769 wood selection tries!
>>>Now doing selecting these same nine parts and coming up with all these nine instrument parts having the 'approved' Wood Tone comes out to: (1 times 0.24) nine times >>> 0.0000026 ; equal to one chance in 378,000 random tries!

..The averages of the four above measured examples is thus:
48% likelihood of being on the wood tone scale at all............
..and 24% of having picked each part at the ideal Wood Tone.

However, with this tool available to you (Just use your I-Phone and our site for reference tone and the first knuckle on you middle finger for tapping ) you can maximize your wood selection process toward better violin acoustical results {unless I am badly mistaken}....

..Each chart shows how where my wood samples were: at what Wood Tone frequency and how many; so you can see the probable distribution in a tone wood selection.

..Notice that in each chart, the predominate Wood Tone (most pieces in that grouping) is also the favored Wood Tone for that violin part; which I determined separately by tone tests I conducted......