Acoustics for violin and guitar makers. All documents linked below are in Acrobat pdf format. Download the free Acrobat Reader. Preface and chapter I Sound and hearing 351 kb Chapter II Resonance and Resonators 701 kb Chapter III Sound and the Room 434 kb Chapter IV Properties of the Violin and the Guitar String 319 kb Chapter V Vibration Properties of the Wood and Tuning of Violin Plates 434 kb Chapter VI The Function, Tone, and Tonal Quality of the Guitar 1044 kb Chapter VII The Function of the Violin 632 kb Chapter VIII The Tone and Tonal Quality of the Violin 353 kb Chapter IX Sound Examples and simple experimental material 419 kb   Download the 10 sound examples in wav format and copy them to (these-pdf-documents)/files/ to read Chapter IX offline as interactive document. All sound examples can also be downloaded in mp3 format.     1 wav 6.6mb mp3 752kb 2 wav 6.0mb mp3 685kb 3 wav 8.6mb mp3 978kb 4 wav 15.9mb mp3 1.8mb 5 wav 13.4mb mp3 1.5mb     6 wav 5.6mb mp3 645kb 7 wav 19.8mb mp3 2.2mb 8 wav 1.9mb mp3 228kb 9 wav 7.2mb mp3 822kb 10 wav 14.8mb mp3 1.6mb