Patent ID: 7932457

Claim:
A method of artificially aging a wooden musical instrument, comprising the steps of: providing a dynamically dead enclosure dedicated to enclosing a wooden musical instrument, said dynamically dead enclosure having a volume sufficient to enclose only one wooden musical instrument and at least one electromechanical transducer; providing a dynamically dead support structure within said dynamically dead enclosure from which said wooden musical instrument is suspended; suspending said wooden musical instrument from said support structure in said enclosure; positioning said at least one electromechanical transducer in said enclosure and directing said at least one electromechanical transducer toward at least one wooden portion of said wooden musical instrument; positioning said at least one electromechanical transducer and said wooden musical instrument in spaced apart relation to one another within said enclosure so that said wooden musical instrument hangs freely within said enclosure; and providing a broadband electrical signal in the range of 20 to 20,000 HZ to said at least one electromechanical transducer so that acoustical energy, having a broadband sound level of at least 110 dB, is emitted from said at least one electromechanical transducer to excite all vibrational and acoustical modes of said wooden musical instrument.