A scale value for the balance inside a historical opera house

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 117, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 771-779

  Prodi, Nicola ^a   Velecka, Sylvia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPERA HOUSES; PRECISION BALANCES;

ANECHOIC PIECES; ORCHESTRA; SCALE VALUE; SOUND SOURCES;

ACOUSTIC WAVES;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; LOUDNESS; MUSIC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGING; SOUND INTENSITY;

EID: 13544262430     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1842774     Document Type: Article

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