Beating frequency and amplitude modulation of the piano tone due to coupling of tones

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 117, Issue 4 I, 2005, Pages 2259-2267

  Cartling, Bo ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; AUDITION; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; TUNING; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

COEXCITATION; PIANO; SOUNDBOARDS; TONES;

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; EXCITATION; FREQUENCY MODULATION; INSTRUMENT; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECORDING; SOUND; VIBRATION;

EID: 17644393884     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1861232     Document Type: Article

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