Making It Modern: Challenging Assumptions & Reinventing the Bridge
Fresh approaches to the visual, structural, and acoustical elements of your bridge
You might assume that the “modern” violin bridge, fitted to numberless instruments over the past several centuries, has had all the bugs worked out of it. And yet bridges continue to warp. Their feet continue to dig into violin tops, while the strings continue digging into the tops of bridges. Bridges still get inadvertently jogged out of place (with sometimes drastic tonal consequences), and it remains difficult for violinists to return them to their intended position—or even to know exactly where that position is (Fig. 1). I believe that these problems are avoidable by modifying the design of the bridge in various ways.
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