On Mon, 28 Apr 2014 22:43:40 +0200, andrel <byt### [at] gmailcom> wrote:

> On 27-4-2014 22:21, Nekar Xenos wrote:
>> On Sun, 27 Apr 2014 19:25:25 +0200, andrel <byt### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>>> An electric bass guitar with a violin/celo body? That's new...
>>>>
>>>> My design electro-acoustic bass based on a contra-bass.
>>>> I hand-coded the sound-box as a bezier patch. I CSG'd the C-holes out  
>>>> of
>>>> the soundbox but I couldn't add depth because I couldn't csg the sides
>>>> of the C-holes. I was thinking maybe this patch would make it  
>>>> possible.
>>>>
>>> Could you not subtract the a scaled down version to create the
>>> resonance chamber?
>>> I am assuming that the thickness of the upper and lower surfaces need
>>> not be detailed modelled to get a realistic sound body.
>>>
>> It just ends up looking like a shadow. I need to do the walls/edges of
>> the c-holes and they need to match.
>>
>
> BTW why the C-holes? I could not find an example of a real instrument  
> that has them.

http://www.google.co.za/imgres?imgurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.christianlaborie.com%2Fimages%2Fbaroque%2Fcordes%2Fimage-1.jpg&imgrefurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.christianlaborie.com%2Fenglish%2Fbaroques.html&h=700&w=465&tbnid=QK-Z8EMVlbgO8M%3A&zoom=1&docid=3DP9e9IG1NQmmM&ei=lVxmU9G1IpCI7AbZ_YHwAQ&tbm=isch&ved=0CFIQMygAMAA&iact=rc&uact=3&dur=784&page=1&start=0&ndsp=35

C-holes are mostly found on viola da gamba. I like the idea of c-holes for  
a bass because it somewhat resembles the bass-clef.

> Mechanically they make also less sense as far as I understand the  
> physics behind the violin family.
> And who is G Oosthuizen?
>
My real name is Gerhard Oosthuizen :)

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-Nekar Xenos-

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