@Kenny H That's density. You can match the mass by weight. 1k of lead has the same mass as 1k of aluminum. They will take up different volume, but the mass is the same.
hi friend. the thickness and size in wood will affect the tone or note even if is same type of wood. as en example : a marimba. it will be interesting if you cut then all same size and make another test 👊😎
This is a very useful video so thanks! I know it would’ve been a pain in the butt, however if you had all of the woods be the same size so that they would all play the same pitch, then we would really be able to more readily hear the total quality. But even so, some of the words were very vibrant and robust while others sounded dead! Very cool…
It is truly a joyful watch that you have created my friend.Especially the trap section at the end...using blocks of tonewoods!I almost fell off my chair!!!
I came here bc I had watched a video on tonewood...ive been playing 37 years .Man, we guitar players will scrutinize the hell out of anything ....Keep jamming all.
you should have cut them to the same size, thickness and length to know the difference otherwise a 1kg bag of sugar will always be heavier than a 1/2 kg
I have explored the tonal differences in wood species for many years through the production of an instrument I call "Clackamore". The differences among various species is astounding as suggested by this wonderful demonstration. I would suggest getting all of the examples supported at the nodes to allow them all to ring true like a marimba bar. None the less, thanks for sharing this, now I have to try a lacewood Clackamore.
While there is a lot of truth to this, from our research, and the way sound propagates, the differences are morphological and depend on the high variability of cellular structures within each piece of wood.
This is all about acoustic science right. We already know, the pitch produced depends on the mass of the object. The higher the mass, the low the pitch will be. The smaller the mass, the higher the pitch. I do believe that each wood produce different tones but this experiment will be more accurate if all the woods are cut with the same mass/size.
The mass of any piece of wood is 100% dependent upon the variability of wood itself on a cellular level. Because of how it grows. www.linkedin.com/pulse/wave-propogation-anisotropic-solids-wood-substance-patrick-joyce/
Jordan Sage Yea it set the tone after the fact so people can let go of the fact that it’s a purely factual video. take what you will from it and we had fun making it!! Never take anything too seriously.
Yes the woods are gonna have some differences, but without making them the same size/dimensions, keeping the note the same, you dont really get to hear it.
I love how it sounds and kudos for making effort of doing this video, however... what is the sense of comparing color of the sound if there is different pitch for every piece of wood? Or at least they could have same dimensions so we could get idea how pitch differs?
This was cool, but I agree that each strip of wood should have been milled down to the same size and length for a proper comparison of their tone. As I was watching this I kept thinking over and over again how the size and length will dramatically affect their tone, so I found this video very disconcerting that the test was not fair to the main point of this video.
We are the first to know that this is far from a scientifically-correct experiment. It's meant to be fun, informative, and hopefully enjoyable. If you notice the different sizes in these exotic and super-exotic species, you'd have to agree that it would be a travesty to cut these fine woods to a smaller but matching dimension. Some pieces we've had for over 30 years! Thanks for your input.
The amount of midrange that comes from the Mahogany has a very strong presence with a lot of tonal cut. Which is why it’s a great tone wood for guitar bodies.
The support points of the pieces of wood are in widely different places relative to their lengths. The shorter bits of wood are particularly wrong. You can't get a proper tone unless the support points are in exactly the right place - that's how xylophones work.
Purpleheart.....just as good as it gets. After making bunchs of mandolins and guitars out of over a dozen different kinds of hard woods you begin to understand the differences density and janka hardness ratios make. But like Les Paul said about his "log" guitar, people tend to hear with their eyes. That's why the name on the head stock means so much. People say I'd rather push a ford than drive a chevy. Or..I'd rather push a chevy than drive a ford. You chose your brand. It is your bag....you can sack it.
Good idea, but without the samples being the same size and thickness, it's hard to tell how the species compare to each other since they're unique shapes and sizes and so sound different accordingly.
@@TheJoysofWood They don't sound TOTALLY different, just different. Matching dimensions enables you to hear the difference between the way species sound. A 4" thick curved piece of oak might sound exactly like a 7" straight cut of maple. Does that explain it better?
it doesn't change anything when it comes to electric guitars, tho. An electric guitar's pickup is essentially a magnet that reacts to string vibrations because the strings are made from metal. Wood affects the sound of an electric guitar only very slightly, barely audible unless it's a semihollow
The only problem is that these woods are used for the back and sides of instruments and those are mostly structural members. The tops that are used for resonance are soft woods like spruce and cedar.
I have a guitar with purple heart fretboard and love it I wish fender and epiphone would use this wood on there fretboard instead of Indian laurel and paufereo
This isn't a valid comparison. Each sample should be tuned to the same fundamental note, have the same proportions, and be supported at the nodal points so that they sustain maximally. Without that, the different pitches make more of a difference than any difference in the sound of the differnet wood species.
I totally understand the tone differences in the woods used in this example. It makes total sense, since different types of wood have entirely different elements to them. Density, hardness, resins or saps, air pockets, grain structures. Therefore, in the case of using the woods as a musical instrument and tapping on the types of wood generating many of differences in tones and pitches. That sounded awesome and was a great example of tonewood. I have played guitar off and on since I was 16YO. I"m now 44YO. Electronic has been a big hobby of mine for many of those years. I like to think I have a nice electronics lab setup. I would also like to believe I have a good understanding of how electric guitars work. I was recently in the market for a new ax, I've not shopped for a guitar in many years. While checking out some reviews, I have noticed a huge amount of myths and bad information being transferred through the internet. That's one negative of the internet. Not only good info but bad info is transferred as well. I'm not amazed at what people believe as I am totally amazed at what people want to believe. There so much info on YT and forums on this subject I even started to believe what I know made no sense logically or scientifically. Therefore, scientifically speaking I have done some recent test in a controlled involvement. After hearing all this hype about tonewood on the internet. I took my old guitars and borrowed a couple of my friends Gib-Les Pauls and one Sechter, and I conducted a plethora of tests. I conducted these test using my Lab equipment, to list a few pieces of gear used. An Oscilloscope's and Spectrum Analyser, Signal Processors Etc. How electrical guitar and pickups work! Guitar Picks, i.e., Sound Transducers "use electrical energy to create mechanical vibration to discharge the surrounding air producing sound whether an audible or inaudible frequency." Electric guitar pickups work by employing "principles of magnetic induction." The pickups are composed of small electromagnets (magnets that are wrapped with a coil of wire, thus allowing an electric current to flow through them I can't find any real evidence showing scientifically that the wood of a fretboard makes a difference in the tone of an electric guitar. Unless you are tapping on the fretboard as you did here in this Video. Even the body wood type does not make a tone difference when using the same hardware bridge, nut, pickups Etc & scale length. Unless you mounted the pickups to witch the string vibration frequency would have to travel through the wood then get transmitted into the pickups. A guitar is played by (fretting) the string at any given fret position then plucking the string. The string is in contact with to parts of the guitar at any given time. Either the nut and bridge or any given fret and bridge. The vibration from the string frequency running thru the fret into the fretboard is not going to make any difference at all. First of the pickups is mount right under the strings. The signal from the stings in causing the pickup's signal to change almost instantly. The pickups are also designed to be influenced by the magnetic field a set of metal strings that are being used as a signal generator. This is why the strings have to be close to the magnetic field generated by the pickups. The frequency generated by the vibrating metal string influenced speed from the vibration of the metal string to pickup is at a very high rate of speed, so quick that any signal is traveling at a different rate of speed. Like moving thru the wood, would not have time to affect the pickup anyway. Any signal moving through and or from wood would not even have an effect on the pickup signal wave, as it would lose its ability to affect the magnetic field generated by the pickups. The pickup could still tranduce a minimal amount of the signal, not enough to change the high wave frequency coming directly from the string 3/32nd away from original trucks. The influenced by any signal traveling through wood as it is not magnetic energy, would not affect the pickups at all as it would have to be powerful enough to influence the strong signal coming straight from the string. This is basic science. + I wonder were all this Tonewood argument originated. I"m only guessing here, I'm pretty sure this started with people trying to convince themselves that the 3000.00 dollars they just spent on a guitar were really worth it. Then they had to convince the people in their circle as well. This stemmed from buyers remorse. Then turn into the reason why other can talk themselves into paying over 1500.00 for a guitar. Then they have to convince there hears that there buddies 400.00 dollar guitar does not sound as good as there 3000.00 dollar guitar. I can't find any evidence that the body of the guitar makes a difference either, using the same testing procedures. If it does its like 0.03% and can't be registered with high tech gear. Of course, I'm not including Acoustical instruments into this, Acoustic is used the surrounding body of wood to generate differenced. I still think shape make more of a difference in acoustic then wood type as long as your not going from extremely soft wood to extremely hard to wood.
Why did you suddenly decide to build your evidence on the readings of the oscilloscope? what proves that the oscilloscope should fix the difference in timbre? you're using the wrong type of evidence. And therefore your conclusions are wrong
I don't understand, do you approve that between the guitars for 400$ and 1500$ there is no difference? And between 1500$ and 3000$. For me this question doesn't worth it, because the difference in most tests is clear
How you name it "Tonewood" is not a theory. It is axiom for those who has claccical music education. Because all (all in the world if it difficult understand for some people) musical instruments have timbral colours and they of course depends of material. May be you should go to conservatory and enter every class and say that "timbres are fiction, the sound doesn't depend on material"?... Everyone will laugh at you, because any good musician knows how his instrument differs from consumer goods.
to judge the tone of the tree, you need to compare the blanks of the same size. one type of tree at different sizes will produce a different sound. the example is not objective
I will always be a believer that there is a different tone in different woods, as mentioned in comments by a size similarity a fine tune of sizing can adjust that difference by some processes of adjustments to obtain more similarity
After reading the comments, the only thing that's becoming clear to me about people who claim to understand tonewoods and how they affect instruments, is that they have NO idea what they're talking about and their analysis mechanism has almost no scientific temper to it. What they see is strictly what they think is the law. They don't think about permutations/combinations/material changes/electronics and about a million other factors that go into generating tone. You could produce the exact same tones from different densities of different metals but I guess its heresy to think that far ahead. Besides, one can charge $10,000 for instruments that have used exotic woods, crafted by experts, in secret labs using ancient techniques handed down by The Knights Of The Round Table themselves.
@Principatus Eletric basses also use electric pickups, that pickup magnetic vibration of the strings... nowhere is the wood envolved in the process of producing the sound that is comming from your cabinet. I honestly don't understand all this fixation on wood for tone. You like some sorts of wood in your instruments, its up to you, its like guitar collors, just do not try to justify your choices and likes because of the tone of the wood...
@Principatus Wasn't exploding, and I ', actualy a bassist and understand the effect wood has on feal. I'm sorry for the reaction, its just that all this marketing BS about tone woods and other elitist BS just annoys me. Most important is the player and his enjoyment of the instrument.
So is it good or bad for the wood to resonate? In the end, you want the air to resonate in the case of an acoustic guitar. So the wood takes away frequencies from the air?
It doesnt make a difference when it comes to electric guitars so dont let anyone scam you lmao... never buy a guitar based on the wood its made from, only buy a guitar if youve heard it and you like the sound.
This test is useless as long as the wood pieces have different size. Width, hight and supported length must be exactly the same . The size has a huge impact on the sound. When the specimen have same size then you can compare different eigen frequencies (SOUND) depending on different density and strength (Average Young s Modulus) of each wood.
You should make the same size and same shape to compare the sound
yes i think the same ...need same same size for check out
yea, tuned to same pitch
Yes that would be sick if they were all the same shape, size, and pitch otherwise nice video!
ultimately you need to match the mass of each piece. the dimensions are not as important.
@Kenny H That's density. You can match the mass by weight. 1k of lead has the same mass as 1k of aluminum. They will take up different volume, but the mass is the same.
hi friend. the thickness and size in wood will affect the tone or note even if is same type of wood. as en example : a marimba. it will be interesting if you cut then all same size and make another test 👊😎
To expensive to cut them down for an experiment.
@@gijsbertuslaurensvandevooren that's what u call experiment. Otherwise, it wouldn't be credible
lol
Same like KOLINTANG, music instrument from minahasa..you can hear the different tone in the different size
essentially that's all they've made. getting the size out of the variable set would help.
0:54 goes hard 🤘
Would have been good if they were the same dimensions...
Herbert Planter you can see the same piece of wood the same size make two different tones. i think that alone is wild
It's not about how they sound it's about how it resonates that tells the quality of the wood
@@ib3ub11because not only volumes, but also density plays an important role in any body’s resonance.
Totally agree. At least same volumes would have been extremely useful. Some other with equal weight would be great too.
Thanks you for posting. I enjoy the tone of the cherry. Which I wouldn't have known if I hadn't watched. This video deserves many LIKES!
They all have different sizes so different notes.
If this video gets to 500K views we will make the video using woods that are the same size.
I thoroughly enjoyed this video for some reason.
This is a very useful video so thanks! I know it would’ve been a pain in the butt, however if you had all of the woods be the same size so that they would all play the same pitch, then we would really be able to more readily hear the total quality. But even so, some of the words were very vibrant and robust while others sounded dead! Very cool…
Size and shape of the wood determine the tone.
the pitch maybe
If this video gets to 500K views we will make the video using woods that are the same size.
so -the woods sound all great on this planet 👍❤
It is truly a joyful watch that you have created my friend.Especially the trap section at the end...using blocks of tonewoods!I almost fell off my chair!!!
Wow the curly maple sounds beautiful
I desire to have the ability to tell what type of wood something is based on the wood, this is the first step in my journey
I came here bc I had watched a video on tonewood...ive been playing 37 years .Man, we guitar players will scrutinize the hell out of anything ....Keep jamming all.
did you find it helpful comparing the sounds of wood without focusing on the pitch?
I’m glad that the sizes are all different!
Thank you ~ Patrick J. owner/operator Joys of Wood
you should have cut them to the same size, thickness and length to know the difference otherwise a 1kg bag of sugar will always be heavier than a 1/2 kg
I think that's a false equivalency
I have explored the tonal differences in wood species for many years through the production of an instrument I call "Clackamore". The differences among various species is astounding as suggested by this wonderful demonstration. I would suggest getting all of the examples supported at the nodes to allow them all to ring true like a marimba bar. None the less, thanks for sharing this, now I have to try a lacewood Clackamore.
Thankyou for sharing.
The purple one sings.
I do like mahogany for a guitar.
This is the best video ever. Thankyou
CHEERS!
Woodlengths will resonate differently. They need to be identical in length, thickness and width for a fair result.
While there is a lot of truth to this, from our research, and the way sound propagates, the differences are morphological and depend on the high variability of cellular structures within each piece of wood.
@@TheJoysofWood basically on the density ...
@@naka3339 100% correct. Not to mention the differences between softwoods and hardwoods are enough to be a ratio on a cellular level.
This is a fascinating video. I wish you had made all the pieces the same size though.
Thanks for the demo
This video is indisputable proof that the wood of the instrument is important!
This is all about acoustic science right. We already know, the pitch produced depends on the mass of the object. The higher the mass, the low the pitch will be. The smaller the mass, the higher the pitch. I do believe that each wood produce different tones but this experiment will be more accurate if all the woods are cut with the same mass/size.
The mass of any piece of wood is 100% dependent upon the variability of wood itself on a cellular level. Because of how it grows.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/wave-propogation-anisotropic-solids-wood-substance-patrick-joyce/
cool lick at the end lol
Impressed how dry the Mahogany sounds!
I’m impress of how they can make them sound almost all the same.
I can only hear the honey dripper...lol!
JK. Cool demo! 🐰🎸🎶🤝✌️
This is a nice meditation video
That ending was cool, haha.
Jordan Sage Yea it set the tone after the fact so people can let go of the fact that it’s a purely factual video. take what you will from it and we had fun making it!! Never take anything too seriously.
Cherry sounds beautiful
Yes the woods are gonna have some differences, but without making them the same size/dimensions, keeping the note the same, you dont really get to hear it.
I WANT THEM ALL!!!
Very interesting! Thanks!
Wow this is genius!
I'm high af and im laughing since 10 minutes ago with the ending
ok
You could make them all of the same wood and have each make a different frequency by changing the length.
Wow, it's as though if you lined up the species in the right order you could create a piano. They all have a native frequency or note they produce.
Purpleheart sounds very musical.
It sounds amazing on the Ibanez GRG guitars
I love how it sounds and kudos for making effort of doing this video, however...
what is the sense of comparing color of the sound if there is different pitch for every piece of wood?
Or at least they could have same dimensions so we could get idea how pitch differs?
This was cool, but I agree that each strip of wood should have been milled down to the same size and length for a proper comparison of their tone. As I was watching this I kept thinking over and over again how the size and length will dramatically affect their tone, so I found this video very disconcerting that the test was not fair to the main point of this video.
We are the first to know that this is far from a scientifically-correct experiment. It's meant to be fun, informative, and hopefully enjoyable. If you notice the different sizes in these exotic and super-exotic species, you'd have to agree that it would be a travesty to cut these fine woods to a smaller but matching dimension. Some pieces we've had for over 30 years! Thanks for your input.
virtualfi both of the last bubinga had similar sounds and were different dimensions...
So cool I'm going to make some guitar picks in my shop right now ❤❤
The amount of midrange that comes from the Mahogany has a very strong presence with a lot of tonal cut. Which is why it’s a great tone wood for guitar bodies.
Madeira não importa, os componentes elétricos sim, só importa para instrumentos acústicos, madeira não produz som ele transmite o som.
Purpleheart sounds great
It really does! Very dense and hard to work with otherwise it would be used more often. Very available however.
well no shit they'll sound different if they're all different sizes
Picture this, a lot of guitars are different sizes, do they insist every guitar be the same size before comparing guitar tones?
@@TheJoysofWood isn't this a comparison of wood tones?
Man just played xylophone out of guitar woods
Wow 😮
You need to do this in the same size pieces but good video
The support points of the pieces of wood are in widely different places relative to their lengths. The shorter bits of wood are particularly wrong. You can't get a proper tone unless the support points are in exactly the right place - that's how xylophones work.
Purpleheart.....just as good as it gets. After making bunchs of mandolins and guitars out of over a dozen different kinds of hard woods you begin to understand the differences density and janka hardness ratios make. But like Les Paul said about his "log" guitar, people tend to hear with their eyes. That's why the name on the head stock means so much. People say I'd rather push a ford than drive a chevy. Or..I'd rather push a chevy than drive a ford. You chose your brand. It is your bag....you can sack it.
Wow .purpurle heart sounds amazing...
I think im going to make a mandolin bridge saddle out of it ..
Good idea, but without the samples being the same size and thickness, it's hard to tell how the species compare to each other since they're unique shapes and sizes and so sound different accordingly.
If two pieces of wood the same size sound totally different, why cut any of them to the same size?
@@TheJoysofWood They don't sound TOTALLY different, just different. Matching dimensions enables you to hear the difference between the way species sound. A 4" thick curved piece of oak might sound exactly like a 7" straight cut of maple. Does that explain it better?
This would be amazing if each piece had same pitch
The comparison shows you that the change in species does affect the tones!@thejoysofwood
This video was requested by POPLAR demand
Don't be an Ash. Stop Pining for attention. Fir once in your life, just try to be spontaneous and Spruce up your jokes
@@TritoneChris oh yeahhhz
it doesn't change anything when it comes to electric guitars, tho. An electric guitar's pickup is essentially a magnet that reacts to string vibrations because the strings are made from metal. Wood affects the sound of an electric guitar only very slightly, barely audible unless it's a semihollow
The only problem is that these woods are used for the back and sides of instruments and those are mostly structural members. The tops that are used for resonance are soft woods like spruce and cedar.
CJinAsia I think people have tried all sorts, pine, spruce and cedar seem to yield the best results.
I have a guitar with purple heart fretboard and love it I wish fender and epiphone would use this wood on there fretboard instead of Indian laurel and paufereo
This isn't a valid comparison. Each sample should be tuned to the same fundamental note, have the same proportions, and be supported at the nodal points so that they sustain maximally.
Without that, the different pitches make more of a difference than any difference in the sound of the differnet wood species.
Great educational video .many thanx to
Mahogany sounded the smoothest and evenest across the overtone spectrum
I totally understand the tone differences in the woods used in this example. It makes total sense, since different types of wood have entirely different elements to them. Density, hardness, resins or saps, air pockets, grain structures. Therefore, in the case of using the woods as a musical instrument and tapping on the types of wood generating many of differences in tones and pitches. That sounded awesome and was a great example of tonewood.
I have played guitar off and on since I was 16YO. I"m now 44YO. Electronic has been a big hobby of mine for many of those years. I like to think I have a nice electronics lab setup. I would also like to believe I have a good understanding of how electric guitars work.
I was recently in the market for a new ax, I've not shopped for a guitar in many years. While checking out some reviews, I have noticed a huge amount of myths and bad information being transferred through the internet. That's one negative of the internet. Not only good info but bad info is transferred as well. I'm not amazed at what people believe as I am totally amazed at what people want to believe. There so much info on YT and forums on this subject I even started to believe what I know made no sense logically or scientifically.
Therefore, scientifically speaking I have done some recent test in a controlled involvement. After hearing all this hype about tonewood on the internet. I took my old guitars and borrowed a couple of my friends Gib-Les Pauls and one Sechter, and I conducted a plethora of tests. I conducted these test using my Lab equipment, to list a few pieces of gear used. An Oscilloscope's and Spectrum Analyser, Signal Processors Etc.
How electrical guitar and pickups work!
Guitar Picks, i.e., Sound Transducers "use electrical energy to create mechanical vibration to discharge the surrounding air producing sound whether an audible or inaudible frequency."
Electric guitar pickups work by employing "principles of magnetic induction." The pickups are composed of small electromagnets (magnets that are wrapped with a coil of wire, thus allowing an electric current to flow through them
I can't find any real evidence showing scientifically that the wood of a fretboard makes a difference in the tone of an electric guitar. Unless you are tapping on the fretboard as you did here in this Video. Even the body wood type does not make a tone difference when using the same hardware bridge, nut, pickups Etc & scale length. Unless you mounted the pickups to witch the string vibration frequency would have to travel through the wood then get transmitted into the pickups.
A guitar is played by (fretting) the string at any given fret position then plucking the string. The string is in contact with to parts of the guitar at any given time. Either the nut and bridge or any given fret and bridge. The vibration from the string frequency running thru the fret into the fretboard is not going to make any difference at all. First of the pickups is mount right under the strings. The signal from the stings in causing the pickup's signal to change almost instantly. The pickups are also designed to be influenced by the magnetic field a set of metal strings that are being used as a signal generator. This is why the strings have to be close to the magnetic field generated by the pickups. The frequency generated by the vibrating metal string influenced speed from the vibration of the metal string to pickup is at a very high rate of speed, so quick that any signal is traveling at a different rate of speed. Like moving thru the wood, would not have time to affect the pickup anyway.
Any signal moving through and or from wood would not even have an effect on the pickup signal wave, as it would lose its ability to affect the magnetic field generated by the pickups. The pickup could still tranduce a minimal amount of the signal, not enough to change the high wave frequency coming directly from the string 3/32nd away from original trucks. The influenced by any signal traveling through wood as it is not magnetic energy, would not affect the pickups at all as it would have to be powerful enough to influence the strong signal coming straight from the string. This is basic science. +
I wonder were all this Tonewood argument originated. I"m only guessing here, I'm pretty sure this started with people trying to convince themselves that the 3000.00 dollars they just spent on a guitar were really worth it. Then they had to convince the people in their circle as well. This stemmed from buyers remorse. Then turn into the reason why other can talk themselves into paying over 1500.00 for a guitar. Then they have to convince there hears that there buddies 400.00 dollar guitar does not sound as good as there 3000.00 dollar guitar.
I can't find any evidence that the body of the guitar makes a difference either, using the same testing procedures. If it does its like 0.03% and can't be registered with high tech gear. Of course, I'm not including Acoustical instruments into this, Acoustic is used the surrounding body of wood to generate differenced. I still think shape make more of a difference in acoustic then wood type as long as your not going from extremely soft wood to extremely hard to wood.
Why did you suddenly decide to build your evidence on the readings of the oscilloscope? what proves that the oscilloscope should fix the difference in timbre? you're using the wrong type of evidence. And therefore your conclusions are wrong
I don't understand, do you approve that between the guitars for 400$ and 1500$ there is no difference? And between 1500$ and 3000$. For me this question doesn't worth it, because the difference in most tests is clear
How you name it "Tonewood" is not a theory. It is axiom for those who has claccical music education. Because all (all in the world if it difficult understand for some people) musical instruments have timbral colours and they of course depends of material. May be you should go to conservatory and enter every class and say that "timbres are fiction, the sound doesn't depend on material"?... Everyone will laugh at you, because any good musician knows how his instrument differs from consumer goods.
Nice
1:22 he’s got chops!!
Try it with pieces all identical in size and dimension.
to judge the tone of the tree, you need to compare the blanks of the same size. one type of tree at different sizes will produce a different sound. the example is not objective
but also the same type of tree at the same size can produce different sound, because wood isn't a perfect mechanical substance.
I think this video would've been far more valuable if all the wood types were cut to the same size and thickness.
If this video gets to 500K views we will make the video using woods that are the same size.
is possible to compare that way two plugged guitars with the same designe but different wood. that wpuls finish a long debate
wow nice video !!!
totally different shapes/sizes.
I will always be a believer that there is a different tone in different woods, as mentioned in comments by a size similarity a fine tune of sizing can adjust that difference by some processes of adjustments to obtain more similarity
Marimba keys made from are rosewood.
Thnks freddie roach
Cocobolo is my favorite. It’s just fun to say. Cocobolo haha
I really wonder how nyatoh wood sounds with its density !
After reading the comments, the only thing that's becoming clear to me about people who claim to understand tonewoods and how they affect instruments, is that they have NO idea what they're talking about and their analysis mechanism has almost no scientific temper to it. What they see is strictly what they think is the law. They don't think about permutations/combinations/material changes/electronics and about a million other factors that go into generating tone. You could produce the exact same tones from different densities of different metals but I guess its heresy to think that far ahead. Besides, one can charge $10,000 for instruments that have used exotic woods, crafted by experts, in secret labs using ancient techniques handed down by The Knights Of The Round Table themselves.
Thank
Noticed that wider wood has a lower note?
Purple mahogany baswood 🤣
I’m dumb as fuck but won’t the different lengths in wood effect the tone?
Wow! Different species and different sized pieces of wood sound different? Astonishing!
The sarcasm is strong with this one
crazy mad zilaphone with out even try put different size woods on shoe box
Is there a tone difference between Honduras and African Mahogany?!
check out the Martin D15 sapele vs Martin D15 Honduran Mahogany on my channel. they do sound different, both are great tone-woods. 🐰🎸🎶✌
each piece of wood is different among the same type
you can make a wood xylophone 😂✌️♥️
For Xylophone yes for guitars not so much, for electric guitars not at all
@Principatus Eletric basses also use electric pickups, that pickup magnetic vibration of the strings... nowhere is the wood envolved in the process of producing the sound that is comming from your cabinet.
I honestly don't understand all this fixation on wood for tone. You like some sorts of wood in your instruments, its up to you, its like guitar collors, just do not try to justify your choices and likes because of the tone of the wood...
@Principatus Wasn't exploding, and I ', actualy a bassist and understand the effect wood has on feal. I'm sorry for the reaction, its just that all this marketing BS about tone woods and other elitist BS just annoys me. Most important is the player and his enjoyment of the instrument.
@Principatus sorry again
@Principatus I thank you for being so civilized and apologize again for my reply. Stay well
I don't get what you try to compare. Shouldn't all wood pieces be the same size to make this test work and say something about the sound properties?
I see where you're coming from. If this video gets to 500K views we will make the video using woods that are the same size.
you can make the same with richlite and technical wood please
Notice the changes in timbre, not Pitches. The woods are in different size so they have different pitch.
Interesting demo. For some reason I could hear how "open" and clear the cherrywood and Mahogany sounded. That's why Gibson uses mahogany all the time
So is it good or bad for the wood to resonate? In the end, you want the air to resonate in the case of an acoustic guitar. So the wood takes away frequencies from the air?
It depends because a marimba is likely the only instrument where wood is struck directly
cajon also. any others?
You want it to resonate for overtone reasons
More of a tutorial on how to build a rudimentary xylophone....
Also, I think it change due to moisture content?
So if I get a wood that sounds an Eb It will make my strat in Eb standard sound better?
Come on!! The sound is so different because of the different sizes and shapes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It doesnt make a difference when it comes to electric guitars so dont let anyone scam you lmao... never buy a guitar based on the wood its made from, only buy a guitar if youve heard it and you like the sound.
AJ G Good advice in general. The only thing is custom made electrics from really dense exotic woods are pretty expensive and are one-of-a-kind
That's cool
🎶✨🧸✨🎶
thank you
This test is useless as long as the wood pieces have different size. Width, hight and supported length must be exactly the same . The size has a huge impact on the sound. When the specimen have same size then you can compare different eigen frequencies (SOUND) depending on different density and strength (Average Young s Modulus) of each wood.
Where is the Jotaba 😊
How does wood knocking have anything to do with the electromagnetic field...lol
Useless test if they’re not the same size