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BELSANO, Pa. (AP) — Robert Gordon III can hear, and even see, the music inside a piece of wood before he transforms it into a finished violin. To demonstrate how, Gordon, a second-generation luthier, twisted a Douglas fir top to a violin made based on a Guarneri mold that was handed down to him from his father. The wood moved like a wave. He then tapped it about two dozen times. “The resonance coming off of it, how light it is, how stiff it is,” Gordon said. “For instance, a lot of it is, see how flexible that top is? You’re trying to get the lateral flexibility, as well as the longitudinal. Instruments are really thin. This is down to 2.5 millimeter. You’re looking at that thin. You can actually see through them when you hold them up to the light. You can kind of see what your arching is, and between the flexibility and the tap tone, so I’m tapping right where the sound post would be, and that’s kind of determining how it’s ringing

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