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Model-based auralizations of violin sound trends accompanying plate-bridge tuning or holding
George Bissinger1, Robert Mores2
1Emeritus faculty, Physics Department, East Carolina University, North Carolina 27858bissingerg@ecu.edu.
Abstract:
To expose systematic trends in violin sound accompanying "tuning" only the plates or only the bridge, the first structural acoustics-based model auralizations of violin sound were created by passing a bowed-string driving force measured at the bridge of a solid body violin through the dynamic filter (DF) model radiativity profile "filter" RDF(f) (frequency-dependent pressure per unit driving force, free-free suspension, anechoic chamber). DF model auralizations for the more realistic case of a violin held/played in a reverberant auditorium reveal that holding the violin greatly diminishes its low frequency response, an effect only weakly compensated for by auditorium reverberation.
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