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Permalink Reply by Ron "Oily" Sprague on October 24, 2011 at 6:06pm

Chuck,

 

Not exactly sure what you mean - effects on what? The resonance and perceived loudness of the box, the top? Do you mean dropping the tuning of one string, or all 3 (or 4, or 6)?

Permalink Reply by Chuck Dubman on October 28, 2011 at 1:47pm

Does a thicker top ring at a lower pitch?  Drop all strings the same number of steps.

Permalink Reply by Ron "Oily" Sprague on October 29, 2011 at 8:11am

Chuck,

Hmmm. Normally, we're trying to get soundboards as thin as possible, so they resonate better ( just thinking my way through this out loud). It would seem to me that to drive a thicker soundboard to resonance, you'd need either lower frequencies provided by a longer scale length, and / or thicker strings. Tuning 'em down might also help.

Have to dig into this some more. Might not matter if you were going to install a pup; but I think it would matter if you were going full acoustic.

Permalink Reply by Chuck Dubman on November 2, 2011 at 5:28am

Pups are a definite possibility. Lipstick pickup would be elegant.

Permalink Reply by Jim burt on January 5, 2013 at 10:10pm

Tell me more about the "Box Tester".....

Permalink Reply by Rand Moore on November 14, 2013 at 2:40pm

There are a couple other threads on CBN about such box testers. Here's two links: link1 and link2.

Permalink Reply by jen harrison on November 20, 2013 at 10:47am

Seems like you could use a tuning fork and get some similar results.

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