MOTM

I won't copy and paste everybodies posts to keep from making a mess. I'll just 
respond. Larry Hendrey missed the part where I said I wanted to remove a string 
and in its place put some kind of device to vibrate the bridge. That would 
vibrate at whatever pitch my synthesized waveform is. So matt_stubb and 
groovshaman are correct in understanding what I wanted to do. I would need to 
keep the other 3 strings there to firmly hold the bridge down, plus in all the 
reading I've been doing about the violin, the body tone is a little different 
when under the tension of all the strings than without any strings. Without 
strings the main formants are lower in pitch.

When I thought of doing this a couple of years back I thought maybe I could 
just screw a speaker into the back of a violin body. It's hard to tell if that 
would give me any useful results or not. Based on what I've read, the bridge 
acts like a lever and where it rests on the violin body and it's internal 
structural supports determines where or how strong some of the main resonances 
will be.

I'm looking at a small speaker now and there's the possibility if I cut off the 
speaker cone I could use the transducer portion of the speaker to vibrate 
something. I don't know how I'd mount it to the bridge, but maybe I could 
compromise and remove the bridge and strings and mount it where the bridge was.

-Elhardt