{"id":30438,"date":"2026-11-15T06:22:02","date_gmt":"2026-11-15T11:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/?p=30438"},"modified":"2026-11-15T06:33:01","modified_gmt":"2026-11-15T11:33:01","slug":"shapely-reasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/shapely-reasons\/","title":{"rendered":"Shapely reasons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the years, my guitar students have on occasion asked me about why it is that guitars, violins, cellos, <em>etc etc<\/em> have the shape they do. The best answer I\u2019ve seen yet:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"StratRationale.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/StratRationale.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"412\" height=\"600\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<p>And here you have it, folks. Thanks to Irish, he\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theferalirishman.blogspot.com\/2026\/11\/friday-femme-fatale-farrago-superfluity.html\" target=\"blank\">found it and ran it first<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Update!<\/strong><\/em> The boy done good <a href=\"https:\/\/theferalirishman.blogspot.com\/2026\/11\/cosmic-night-drive-music.html\" target=\"blank\">on this one<\/a>, too, if you axe me.<\/p>\n<div class=\"remoji_bar\"><div class=\"remoji_add_container\" data-remoji-id=\"30438\" data-remoji-type=\"post\"><div class=\"remoji_add_icon\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"remoji_error_bar\" data-remoji-id=\"30438\" data-remoji-type=\"post\" style=\"display: none;\">Error happened.<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the years, my guitar students have on occasion asked me about why it is that guitars, violins, cellos, etc etc have the shape they do. The best answer I\u2019ve seen yet: And here you have it, folks. Thanks to Irish, he\u00a0found it and ran&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"easywp-readmore\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/shapely-reasons\/\">Would you like to know more?<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Shapely reasons<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"h5ap_radio_sources":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,118,125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alternative-history","category-guitars-and-those-who-sling","category-or-losing","wpcat-6-id","wpcat-118-id","wpcat-125-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30438"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30441,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30438\/revisions\/30441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}