The elusive digital stradivarius..no mando content but cool.

**Vernon Hughes** · Aug-15-2013, 2:15pm

Heard this on NPR today. Any luthiers into the science of sound outta give a listen.
http://www.thestory.org/stories/2013...l-stradivarius

**sunburst** · Aug-15-2013, 2:17pm

I heard that too. Kind of interesting.

**Vernon Hughes** · Aug-15-2013, 2:29pm

Maybe he should try it with Loars!

**OldSausage** · Aug-15-2013, 2:30pm

This is sure going to save us all a lot of cash once we can just download the Loar of our dreams for $0.99.

**shortymack** · Aug-15-2013, 3:07pm

Will this be the beginning of SAS (sound acquiring syndrome)?

**Marty Jacobson** · Aug-15-2013, 3:10pm

When I was a kid, my next-door neighbor was (still is) an Aerospace Engineering professor at Georgia Tech. He invited me to his lab... where he was using the tail of an F-15 as a desk.

He had me play a cheap, $200 Chinese 4/4 violin. Then he turned on a processor, and the violin sounded amazing!

He had replaced the soundpost with a piezo transducer, which he could use to modulate the body modes, and thus the tone produced. It really worked. Pretty insane!

Here's a paper he co-authored about it:
Active control and adaptive structures for a smart violin
Hanagud, Sathya; Lu, Xia
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Volume 109, issue 5 (May 01, 2001), p. 2484-2484.
ISSN: 0001-4966
And a patent: http://www.google.com/patents/US6320113