The spatial inhomogeneity of pressure inside a violin at main air resonance

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 622-627

  Vandegrift, Guy ^a   Wall, Eccles ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

^b Greensboro College   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; INSTRUMENT; MUSIC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND PRESSURE;

EID: 0030811952     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.419736     Document Type: Article

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20. The microphone was a 0.75-cm-diam "Tie-Pin" microphone obtained from Radio Shack: Cat. No. 33-1063 (Cost ∼$30).