![]() ![]() We're in the middle of all of this ferment right now it will probably all be settled in a hundred years or so, if anybody is still playing guitars.Īlan Carruth wrote: ↑ Thursday 08 April 2021, 19:24 pm Since much of this depends on individual taste and tolerance there's another variable in the equation. Finding out what those ways are can take time. What good is a beautiful sound if nobody can hear it? What good is a powerful sound that nobody wants to listen to? There may be ways to mitigate both undesirable choices and get more of what we want of both tone and power. Going for 'as much sound as possible' tends to skew the character of the sound in ways that are not always good for the music. The less you mess with that structure, the less 'different' the new design will be from the old, both in terms of power and timbre. This is especially true in that changing the way the 'wood' of the top works doesn't alter the way the air inside moves (at least not directly), so the relationships that are 'built in' between the air and the wood differ when the top structure changes. Since the 'standard repertoire' was written around the character of the available instruments it might not work as well when the design has been altered. Much of what we think of as the 'character' of the sound of a guitar depends on how those resonances relate to the pitches the strings are tuned to. If the structure is just as stiff as a 'traditional' top, but weighs less, all of it's resonances will be shifted upward in pitch. Such a drastic structural shift affects the tone, of course. A spruce lattice without any carbon fiber will be heavier, and not quite as stiff, but it still moves in that direction. The top can be reduced to a membrane that's just thick enough to hold up in normal handling, that moves air to produce sound. Smallman's carbon/balsa bracing takes the weight of the bracing itself down as far as possible, while providing all of the necessary stiffness. Overall the structure is lighter, and the limited horsepower of the strings can drive it more easily, producing more sound. The idea of lattice bracing is to shift that balance putting most of the stiffness into the bracing, and reducing the thickness and weight of the top. The top itself tends to weight more than the bracing usually much more. Bracing adds stiffness out of proportion to its mass, and allows for the use of a thinner top that would be needed without it, saving weight. In 'normal' guitar tops the top plate itself provides a fair amount of stiffness to take up the static torque of the strings on the bridge. Well, I don't suppose it's on the order of a 'law of nature', but it's certainly what you'd expect. " Is it essential that wooden lattice are in general more natural sounding but less efficient than carbon lattice bracing?" ![]()
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