Interpreting the input admittance of violins and guitars

Acta Acustica united with Acustica

Volumn 98, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 611-628

  Woodhouse, J ^a   Langley, R S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS APPROACH; INPUT ADMITTANCE; LINEAR AVERAGING; LOCAL RESONANCE; TIME DECAY; TREND ANALYSIS;

DAMPING; VISUALIZATION;

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 84864414250     PISSN: 16101928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3813/AAA.918542     Document Type: Article

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