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analog31 on Jan 19, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why Violins Have F-Holes

In addition, the corners at the top and bottom of the C are stress risers, encouraging the propagation of cracks from those points. There's nowhere for a crack to start on an f-hole. I'm sure the old luthiers were not only experimenting with tone quality, but also with repair issues.

jacquesm on Jan 19, 2016 [–]

Yes, absolutely. And if that lesson had been kept around then we might have lost fewer early passenger aircraft.

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