Perceptual thresholds for detecting modifications applied to the acoustical properties of a violin

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 122, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 3640-3650

  Fritz, Claudia ^a   Cross, Ian ^a   Moore, Brian C J ^b   Woodhouse, Jim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; CHARACTERIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; RECORDING INSTRUMENTS;

ACOUSTICAL CHARACTERISTICS; ACOUSTICAL PROPERTIES; PSYCHOACOUSTIC EXPLORATION; VIOLIN;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FORCE TRANSDUCER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSTRUMENT; MUSICIAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND; VIOLIN;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACOUSTICS; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOTION; MUSIC; PITCH PERCEPTION; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; TRANSDUCERS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; VIBRATION;

EID: 38849146554     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2799475     Document Type: Article

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