Violin Update

Since I began working with Joseph Curtin, we have collaborated on several projects which have tried to improve the object that is the modern day violin. I am excited to report that we have evidence of some amount of success in our endeavors. The proof is that musicians are starting to request some of our inventions!

The photographs above show a fingerboard that features a new geometry we designed (digital model, FB just after milling, and FB on an instrument), as well as a next generation violin bridge, and a digital model of a standard bridge. Our improvements to these violin components are as follows. The new fingerboard geometry optimizes the area underneath each string to make depressing and playing a string as easy as possible, while our innovative bridge design reimagines the way bridges are constructed. This new method allows us to strengthen several fragile areas of the bridge, conferring the added benefit of improving sound conductivity between the strings and the soundboard. When our design is applied to traditionally shaped bridges, it improves the quality volume of a violin’s sound. These improvements are made even more dramatic when coupled with our inventive ultralight bridge shape.

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