The Art of Tap Tuning 2nd edition is a content-rich treatise on musical acoustics that describes the process of building stringed musical instruments and adjusting the frequencies of the parts and air chamber to produce excellent tone. The great violin luthiers of the 15th and 16th Centuries learned that excellence in tone could only be achieved through a process called "tap tuning." Written by renowned author Roger H. Siminoff with more than six decades of luthierie experience, and almost as many years dedicated to tap tuning, this revised edition of The Art of Tap Tuning breaks the mystique about tap tuning and reveals ground-breaking information on how easily tap tuning works and how to apply it to instruments you build to produce the best sounding stringed acoustical instruments. The text is accompanied by a secure-access interruption-free 55-minute video with numerous live voicing and tap tuning demonstrations (to be streamed to your device anywhere anytime).
Fully illustrated with more than 95 diagrams and color photos
A primer on musical acoustics
Tone bar and air chamber tunings for 12 instruments
An Appendix on Lloyd Loar's tuning techniques for the F5, H5, and L5
An Appendix by Lloyd Loar on What Sound Boards Do And How They Do It
55-minute video loaded with live tap tuning demonstrations (available for streaming on-line to any device via secure-code access)
Forward by Richard Hoover, Santa Cruz Guitar Company
Includes free bonus luthier's signature labels, 76 pages, soft bound, 8-1/2˝x11˝
