Experimental and computational studies of piano hammers

Acta Acustica united with Acustica

Volumn 91, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1086-1097

  Stulov, Anatoli ^a  

^a TALLINN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Estonia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; DATA REDUCTION; FORCE MEASUREMENT; MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS;

DYNAMIC FORCE-COMPRESSION; PIANO HAMMER; STRING DUMMIES;

ACOUSTICS;

EID: 30344448893     PISSN: 16101928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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