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	<description>Blog by the guitarist Nacho Bellido</description>
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		<title>Studying Torres guitars</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Mar 2023 11:19:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Daniel Gil de Avalle / Enca González / Robert Mores http://www.centrodedocumentacionmusicaldeandalucia.es/ojs/index.php/mos/issue/view/16 Gil de Avalle, D., &#38; González, E. (2019). Estudio de las guitarras Torres &#8211; Parte I: innovación y evolución en el contexto del siglo XIX. Música Oral Del Sur, &#8230; <a href="https://theguitar-blog.com/?p=4038">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Resource-Sensitive Global Production Networks: Reconfigured Geographies of Timber and Acoustic Guitar Manufacturing</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2022 10:48:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chris Gibson &#38; Andrew Warren http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/f This article examines how resource materiality, scarcity, and evolving international environmental regulation shape global production networks (GPNs).Naturefacingelements, including resource scarcity and environmental regulation, have seldom featured in GPN analysis. So, too, GPN analysis emphasizes &#8230; <a href="https://theguitar-blog.com/?p=3915">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Numerical Simulation of guitar radiation fields using the boundary element method</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jul 2022 11:19:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Matthew Brooke http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?u The  first part  of  the  thesis  develops  the  theoretical background  for a numerical  model of  the  classical  guitar.  The  model  computes,  from fundamental parameters,  the  transfer function  between  the  plucking force at  any  point  on  the  string  &#8230; <a href="https://theguitar-blog.com/?p=3717">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Materials-inspired innovation for acoustic guitar design</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2022 09:07:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Owain Pedgley, Eddie Norman y Rob Armstrong This paper presents a case study of research leading to a significant innovation in the acoustic guitar sector (1). The acoustic guitar is a result of centuries of design and development with wood, &#8230; <a href="https://theguitar-blog.com/?p=3655">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Rise and fall of iconic guitar tonewoods and evaluation of alternative species</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:09:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brian Charles Applegate Edinburgh College of Art thesis and dissertation collection URI https://hdl.handle.net/1842/38431   http://dx.doi.org/10.7488/era/1695 The future use of traditional tonewoods in the art of lutherie is at a critical juncture. The over-utilization of tropical hardwoods is forcing guitar makers to &#8230; <a href="https://theguitar-blog.com/?p=3596">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Historical analysis and remaking of two German keyed guitars from the Romantic period using traditional and digital technologies</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:05:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Daniel Wheeldon Edinburgh College of Art thesis and dissertation collection URI https://hdl.handle.net/1842/37837    http://dx.doi.org/10.7488/era/1113 This creative practice PhD examines and reconstructs two nineteenth-century German guitars: one made in Mittenwald by Mathias Neüner in 1810; the other bearing the names F. Fiala &#8230; <a href="https://theguitar-blog.com/?p=3593">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Experimental Approaches on Vibratory and Acoustic Characterization of Harp-Guitars</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2022 09:21:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Enrico Ravina https://www.academia.edu/699 The paper describes the results of a research activity, still under development, oriented to the vibratory and acoustic characterization of harp-guitars. Vibration analyses show interesting differences between harp-guitars and classical guitars about displacements detected on the soundboard &#8230; <a href="https://theguitar-blog.com/?p=3570">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Finite Element Design and Manufacturing of a Nylon-String Guitar Soundboard from Sandwich-Structured Composites</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 May 2022 10:34:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Negin Abaeian https://www.mcgill.ca/music/ The aim of this project was to use the Finite Element Method (FEM) to design and manufacture the soundboard of a nylon-string guitar from sandwich-structured composites, with reference to an existing wooden soundboard, and to evaluate the &#8230; <a href="https://theguitar-blog.com/?p=3485">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Design of a composite guitar</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2016 20:48:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; Today’s acoustic guitars are getting increasingly expensive due to the worsening availability of the highest quality woods. Composites show great promise in replacing wood in acoustic guitars as they are lightweight, are not as sensitive to environmental effects &#8230; <a href="https://theguitar-blog.com/?p=2912">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Towards Overcoming the Guitar&#8217;s Color Research Gap</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2016 09:54:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Most  (classical)  guitar  music  comes  from  guitarist-composers.  Yet  according  to  guitarists who collaborate with composers, color research on this instrument is better achieved by those who do not  play  the  instrument.  Thus  the  guitar  lags  behind  many  instruments  in  &#8230; <a href="https://theguitar-blog.com/?p=2875">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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