N2 - The feasibility of substituting the types of wood usually employed in the making of guitars and violins was analyzed, but without comparing the properties of involved materials as it is often reported; in this work, the vibrational behavior of twelve guitars and three violins built with alternative types of woods was compared to data of classical instruments available in the literature. In the guitars here measured, the back plate and ribs were not made from traditional woods; while in the violins, only the top plate was made from an alternative type of wood. The results showed that changing the wood of back plate and ribs does not radically affect the typical mobility of a guitar; however, the expected mobility for a violin was not clearly obtained substituting the wood of the top plate. Thus it seems feasible to substitute the wood of back plate and ribs in guitars without causing dramatic changes in their performance; in contrast, a change of the wood type for top plate in violins seems inadvisable unless the design of the top plate is modified to compensate the differences between the woods. L1 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/101399/PDF/07_paper.pdf L2 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/101399 PY - 2015 IS - No 3 EP - 358 DO - 10.1515/aoa-2015-0038 KW - mobility KW - violin KW - guitar KW - luthier KW - Stradivari KW - 43.75.Gh KW - 43.75.Yy A1 - Torres, Jesús Alejandro A1 - Torres-Martínez, Reydezel PB - Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Committee on Acoustics VL - vol. 40 DA - 2015[2015.01.01 AD - 2015.12.31 AD] T1 - Evaluation of Guitars and Violins Made using Alternative Woods through Mobility Measurements SP - 351 UR - http://journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/101399 T2 - Archives of Acoustics