Physical modeling of the piano

Eurasip Journal on Applied Signal Processing

Volumn 2004, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 926-933

  Giordano, N ^a   Jiang, M ^a,b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Montana State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Physical modeling; Piano

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; ACOUSTIC WAVES; ALGORITHMS; AUDIO ACOUSTICS; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; FUNCTIONS; HAMMERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

HAMMER-STRING INTERACTION; PHYSICAL MODELING; PIANO; SOUNDBOARD MOTION; XYLOPHONE;

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 4344576571     PISSN: 11108657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/S111086570440105X     Document Type: Article

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