To the Engineering Faculty and Anyone Else Proficient With CAD,

I recently received this email from Chattanooga's own Dan Landrum, of
hammer dulcimer fame. If anyone is interested in helping him on this cool
sounding project, please contact him directly at:

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Thanks,

Nick Honerkamp


Nick,

I am currently working with a friend on a design for a new hammer dulcimer.
The concept is to give it a metal frame, similar to the way a piano is
built.  The finished product would have a free floating sound board with no
back.  In other words we are opening up the box.

I'm writing you because we'd like to get someone with a CAD program and some
engineering skill to help us determine the amount of bracing necessary based
on calculated string tension.  We have the formula for calculating the
string tension but don't have a clue as to aluminum tolerances.  Do you have
a suggestion as to whom I might be able to talk to at the university?

Thanks,

Dan


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Check out my Yanni tour journal and here samples of my latest music at:
http://www.danlandrum.com


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Nicholas Honerkamp, Ph.D.
Acting Head, Sociology, Anthropology, & Geography
Director, Institute of Archaeology
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
615 McCallie Avenue
Chattanooga, TN 37403-2598
423.425.4325  / fax 423.425.2251
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