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The Catgut Acoustical Society Library |
| File #: | B9870 |
| Name: | Butler, Thomas G |
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| General Information: |
| Working at the Goddard Space Center in the early 1960s, Butler was the primary one to develop the |
| program NASTRAN. He came to the D.C. meeting of the CAS and expressed much enthusiasm for |
| applying NASTRAN to a study of the violin. By 1971 his work with NASTRAN had reached the point |
| where he felt he could devote time to an investigation of not only the individual properties of the |
| soundpost, bassbar, bridge, purfling, f-holes, varnish and wood, but also of their functioning as a unit. |
| Many conferences with CMH helped him to get detailed measurements of the violin and all its parts and |
| an understanding of some of the research that had been done on the violin. By 1975 he was planning to |
| go to the National Science Foundation for some funding for this as well as using some of the award |
| money he had gotten for the development of NASTRAN. Unfortunately a serious accident put a stop to |
| all this and he hasn't been heard from since. |
| File Contents: |
| B9870 | -- | 101 |
| Correspondence: (1965-1975) involving a Prof Bell (probably James Frederick Bell), Butler and |
| CMH. Includes part of grant proposal by Butler, with some comments by CMH and Schelling; also |
| page of equations. |
| Key Words: | NASTRAN Program | Violin analysis |