Hudson Valley Education Center Needs Spring Cleanup Volunteers
Some of us are finding ourselves with a little extra time lately. With travel still be kind of weird a lot of us are trying find something to do right here in the Hudson Valley. It is great to plan day trip but what if you planned a day to volunteer.
So many organizations could use your help. Spring is a time for clean up and fix up. A lot of local area charities have project underway for the spring and most of them are happy to have volunteers. Figure out in your town who needs a helping hand and maybe you and a group of friends can make a day out of helping out.
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BELSANO, Pa. (AP) â
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.
âThe resonance coming off of it, how light it is, how stiff it is,â Gordon said.
âFor instance, a lot of it is, see how flexible that top is? Youâre trying to get the lateral flexibility, as well as the longitudinal. Instruments are really thin. This is down to 2.5 millimeter. Youâre 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 Iâm tapping right where the sound post would be, and thatâs kind of determining how itâs ringing
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