Wall compliance and violin cavity modes

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 113, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 1718-1723

  Bissinger, George ^a  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); ERGONOMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES;

WALL COMPLIANCE;

ACOUSTIC DEVICES;

SOUND;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; COMPLIANCE (PHYSICAL); INSTRUMENT; MUSIC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WOOD;

EID: 0037334896     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1538199     Document Type: Article

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