摘要 |
The improvement in an acoustical musical stringed instrument having a flat soundboard with opposite top and bottom surfaces employing a plurality of elongated struts secured to the bottom surface of the soundboard in spaced apart positions. The struts cause the first side of the top surface of the soundboard to function as if it were stiffer and relatively short and wide and cause the second side of the top surface to function as if it were more compliant and relatively longer and narrower. The struts are progressively graduated in width and length from shorter and wider struts secured to the first side of the bottom surface to longer and narrower struts secured to the second side of the bottom surface whereby when the strings of the instrument are plucked to produce sound, the resonant frequency is enhanced by increasing the number of harmonics of higher frequency of the resonant frequency and the richness of sound is substantially enhanced.
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