The evolution of air resonance power efficiency in the violin and its ancestors

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 471, Issue 2175, 2015, Pages

  Nia, Hadi T ^a   Jain, Ankita D ^a   Liu, Yuming ^a   Alam, Mohammad Reza ^a,c   Barnas, Roman ^b   Makris, Nicholas C ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b North Bennet St School   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

F Hole; Helmholtz Resonance; Musical Acoustics; Sound hole evolution; Violin acoustics; Violin Evolution

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; EFFICIENCY; MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; RESONANCE;

ACOUSTIC RADIATION; DESIGN EVOLUTION; ELASTIC STRUCTURES; HELMHOLTZ RESONANCE; MUSICAL ACOUSTICS; POWER EFFICIENCY; POWER INCREASE; VIOLIN EVOLUTION;

ACOUSTIC MEASURING INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 84982106554     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: 14712946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2014.0905     Document Type: Conference Paper

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