Making the Most of What you Have
Using recorded audio from anywhere to find some of an instrument’s resonances…
Bridge Experiments
experimenting with specie, geometry and mass in different bridges on the same mandolin.
Mystery Resonances
An odd peak shows up when you blow across the ff-holes, I think I have an idea on what causes it and potentially how it can be manipulated…
Ten Easy Tone Options
Sometimes you don’t need a new mandolin to get new tone. Play around with these options!
My First Experimental Result
In retrospect a duh-moment, but at the time I figured out, on my own, why certain resonances changed when the strings were on vs when they were off. Felt pretty good…
Curiosity meets Resonance, part 1
An exploration into FFT and the shapes of FFT graphs of the sound created by different materials and objects. An attempt to tie the visual with the audible, in a way to make more sense of the audible.
Mandolin Measurement Project Overview
The main gist of what my measurement project is attempting to learn with mandolins and tone, with a tag-on goal of figuring out what to do with it once it’s sorted out.
As of 2/7/2025 I have measured136 ff-holed mandolins from the following 38 builders:
Andersen — Bourgeois — BRW — Campanella — (Austin) Clark — The Colfax (Baxendale) — Collings — Eastman — Elkhorn — Flatiron —Gibson (including 1 Loar) — Gilchrist — Hagerty — Harris — Heiden — Hillburn — Hutto — Ibanez — iii — Iwamoto — J. Bovier — Kentucky — Klos — Ludewig — Millard — Northfield — Nugget — Old Wave — Ome — Passernig — Pava — Silverangel — Tailwater — The Loar — Turkey Creek — Wade — Weber — Wildflower