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This is an important and very well written paper dealing with existence of solutions of the following Dirichlet boundary value problem for semilinear wave equations \[ u_{tt} - u_{xx} + bu^+ - au^- = f(x,t) \quad \text{in} \quad \left(-{\frac {\pi}2},{\frac {\pi}2}\right) \times \mathbb{R}, \tag{1} \] \[ u\left(\pm {\frac {\pi}2},t\right) = 0, \tag{2} \] where \(bu^+\) and \(au^-\) correspond to the upward and downward restoring forces, respectively due to the vibration of a nonuniform-density string. The authors establish the multiplicity of solutions of (1), (2) when \(f\) is generated by the first two eigenfunctions \(\phi_{00}\) and \(\phi_{10}\). To this end an adequate extension of the reduction method is developed.