MOTM

--- In motm@y..., elhardt@a... wrote:
> 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.

Take care with removing all strings of a violin, you could lose the 
stapel (inside; it is not glued). If this happens it has to be 
readjusted by a violin builder!

Michel Havenith