Modelling Savart's trapezoidal violin using a digital waveguide mesh
Federico Fontana, Stefania Serafin · VBN Forskningsportal (Aalborg Universitet) · 2003
We propose a real-time computer model of Savart's trapezoid al vi- olin. The model, which uses a three dimensional waveguide mesh, is applied to a bowed string physical model. Different attempt were made in order to perfect the violin. At the beginning of the 19th century Savart tried to simplify the shape proposing a trapezoidal body without arches, with straight sound holes, and a bass bar in the middle of the front (2). A violin si milar to the one proposed by Savart is shown in figure 2. This violin was never adopted, even if documents of the time claim that the Academies of Sciences and of Arts approved the design and the sonorities (2).