![]() And so, the experimenting continued.īy the 12th and 13th centuries, the circular holes were replaced with half moon shaped holes, followed quickly by C shaped holes. This double design produced a greater acoustic clarity for bowed instruments than the single holes did, but it was still far from perfect. In the 10th and 11th centuries, the single circular hole was replaced by two separate circular holes on opposite sides of the instrument’s body, much as the modern f holes are located today. And so, they began experimenting with other designs. ![]() However, as bowing took off as a genuine technique in its own right, the makers of such stringed instruments found that the circular sound holes did not produce the desired results. This probably occurred as some of the first instruments to be played with bows were simply lutes, whose main performance technique remained plucking. The earliest bowed string instruments actually had the same circular hole design as the guitar. In the case of the violin and other bowed string instrument, the f hole is a product of years of development through trial and error. In the guitar’s case, the single circular hole has been a staple of the instrument’s design for centuries. ![]() These in particular contrast with the single circular shaped sound hole located in the center of an acoustic guitar. One the most notable features of the modern bowed string instrument family is that of the so called “f holes” located centrally on either side of the instruments’ main bodies.
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