A comparison of wood density between classical cremonese and modern violins

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

  Stoel, Berend C ^a   Borman, Terry M ^b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Borman Violins   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; CLASSICAL CREMONESE VIOLIN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY; GEOMETRY; INSTRUMENT; MAPLE WOOD; MATERIALS; MODERN VIOLIN; MUSIC; SOUND TRANSMISSION; SPRUCE; THICKNESS; VIBRATION; WOOD; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEARING; SOUND;

ACER; PICEA;

ACOUSTICS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; MUSIC; SOUND; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VIBRATION; WOOD;

EID: 49749085500     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0002554     Document Type: Article

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