Using ‘Digital Amati’ in violin making

The following extract is from the article ’Project Lutherie: Euclidean geometry and digital instrument design’ which appeared in the September 2017 issue. To read the full article, click here

For several years now, makers of violin-family instruments have been finding new and different ways of incorporating 21st-century science into an age-old craft. CT scanning, fine acoustic measurements and progress in wood technology have all played their part in advancing the art of the luthier but, so far, the possibilities offered by computer science have been relatively unexplored. A new software project, which has been in development since 2012, seeks both to aid makers in designing classical stringed instruments, and to help researchers in their understanding of stringed-instrument forms.