Vibrational frequencies and tuning of the African mbira

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 123, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 1169-1178

  McNeil, L E ^a   Mitran, S ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SPECTROSCOPY; ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TUNING; VIBRATION MEASUREMENT; VIBRATIONAL SPECTRA;

ACOUSTIC RADIATION EFFICIENCY; FAR FIELD POWER SPECTRUM; FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCIES; LONGITUDINAL MOTIONS;

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; MUSIC; MUSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND; SOUND INTENSITY; VIBRATION;

EID: 38849195643     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2828063     Document Type: Article

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