- ISBN13: 9781423423270
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Product Description
This book explains the secret ingredients needed to obtain the very best tonal qualities when building acoustic string instruments. It includes an exploration of the tools and equipment needed, the methods to excite tones in the instrument, how to make the necessary changes, and how to achieve consistency and repeatability. The text focuses on tap tuning as it relates to mandolins, guitars, banjos, violins, ukuleles, dulcimers, pianos, and more. The DVD includes dem… More >>
Art of Tap Tuning How to Build Great Sound into Instruments Book/DVD
Good for those of us who build but for whom the application of tap tuning is largely a mystery. Good science foundation by a proven master of the technique.
Rating: 4 / 5
Having built many guitars and having looked at tap tuning in stringed instruments, I can ole address my own experience. tao Tuning is not a science, nor has it any application to guiat making. You can tap tune a top and have a superb sounding piece. Then glue it on the sides and evrything changes. In short a waste of time. Thebook is well written and is great information for making violins, but no real application guitars. No substitue for mothernatures woods, some nice hnd wrok and love or total package. Each instrument needs to stand it’s own as a piece of art, not a scientific tool.
Rating: 2 / 5
Tap tuning is a very interesting way to help you build a better sounding instrument. Explaining how different parts of the instrument vibrate as an individual part or as a whole of those parts assembled. Besides, it is incredibly fun to do this.
Rating: 5 / 5
Another great book for luthiers by Mr. Siminoff. It’s a bit techy, but if you want to build great guitars (or any other acoustic stringed instrument), this is the stuff you need to go to the next level. The book will dispel the idea that tap tuning is a “black art” that only the gifted can practice, and put it squarely in the realm of possibility.
Rating: 4 / 5
I am not a luthier, but am fascinated by the craft. Simonoff’s books are right on point and are models of concise but detailed information of stringed instrument building and the real art of tuning. Their greatest asset is to show that tuning is not just about how to tighten strings, rather that tuning is about every aspect of the guitar, from the glue up. Since most people buy finished guitars, much of this is may seem academic, but the books are aimed primarily at either luthiers or people that love guitars and how they are born. It would also help those who are buying a guitar, but in that case, the prime factor may be just to buy what sounds good, with some knowledge of what you can change to suit you style of play.
Simonoff is an artist in his craft and an artist in teaching his craft through his books. One (pleasant) warning, after reading his work, a visit to a guitar shop will again never be the same.
Rating: 5 / 5