Produção de um violão clássico em madeira de teca (Tectona grandis)

• Autor(a) principal: Soares, Maria Angelica [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Tipo de documento: Trabalho de conclusão de curso
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/142904; http://www.athena.biblioteca.unesp.br/exlibris/bd/capelo/2016-07-01/000867439.pdf
• topic: Violão - Construção; Instrumentos de corda; Madeira - Qualidade; Teca (Arvore); Guitar- Construction

Brazil has a vast tropical forest with many species and reforestation capacity for others, such as Pinus, Eucalyptus and Teak in recent years. The teak wood (Tectona grandis) is known for its quality, beauty and commercial value, but their primary purpose is still in shipbuilding, and to a lesser extent in the furniture and construction industry. A new use for this wood would be its application in luthiery. It isknown that luthiers uses traditional woods and recognized quality for construction of musical instruments. The objective of this study was to analyze the feasibility of using wood Tectona grandis, in building a classical guitar. Teak boards with approximately 18 years old, from reforestation of Mato Grosso were used. The boards were processed to make all the parts of the classical guitar: the body that consists of the soundboard, bottom and the sides; the neck, where it has the fretboard,the nut and headstock, where are located the tuning keys for the strings. The Teak wood was analyzed in the equipment Sonelastic PC Based of non-destructive analysis to determinate wood natural frequency of vibration, resulting in 2500 to 2800Hz. After assembly and finishing the instrument was presented to professional and amateur musicians to give an opinion about their sound, having been unanimously approved. In constructive issues the guitar had problems in adjusting the height of the frets, heavy weight of the guitar, and robust arm