The Caldersmith Papers is a lifetime of research into the way guitars and violins work and make musical sounds. The book brings together 33 articles written between the late 1970s and early 2000s that were originally published in American Lutherie, the Catgut Acoustical Society Newsletter, the Journal of Guitar Acoustics, Acoustics Australia,The Strad and other journals. Caldersmith's research was highly thought of worldwide and he was able to able to explain complex ideas on musical instrument acoustics in a way accessible to the non-technically trained, while at the same time publishing peer-reviewed papers on in the major acoustics journals in Australia, the United States and Europe. This was in addition to building more than 200 guitars, 116 violins, 60 violas and 38 cellos, pioneering the use of Australian timbers in many of them.
The book is published by MusicBooks press and will only be available as a hard copy printed book, available in a couple of weeks through IPG in the US and Canada, and Amazon is taking pre-orders at https://www.amazon.com/Calder.../dp/064 ... ref=sr_1_1... and I think they should be able to ship anywhere in the world.
In Australia copies can be purchased directly from http://www.mcdonaldstrings.com/caldersmith_papers.html where there is more information and copies are available now.
