Bass bar

The bass bar is a wooden bar, which is located along the course of strings and the bass side of the bridge of stringed instruments. He is glued to the inside of the ceiling, reinforced mainly the low frequencies and distributes them. Oberbug on bottom and the ceiling This Emphasizing the bass works by damping the longitudinally propagating oscillations with high frequency because the vibration of the treble strings do not have so much power to stimulate this locked with the bass side beams for vibration. The transverse to the bass bar running oscillations with high frequency however, are not or only slightly attenuated. Thus, the bass bar contributes a great deal to balance the heat of the sound of an instrument.

In addition, he has a static function because it stabilizes the ceiling and thus distributes the pressure that the jetty exerts uniformly over the entire ceiling. In older instruments, the bass bar was often the carving of the ceiling " to stand ". Today, it shall be adjusted and glued into the rule of the finished carved vaulted ceiling. Some luthier glue while the bass bar with a voltage (so that it bulges out the ceiling in addition ), others reject this method and glue it into the power supply.

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• Pinblock

• Component ( string instrument)