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Generation of a reference radiation pattern of string instruments using automatic excitation and acoustic centering

Noam R Shabtai1, Gottfried Behler1, Michael Vorländer1

  • 1Institute of Technical Acoustics, RWTH Aachen University, Kopernikusstrasse 5, 52074 Aachen, Germany nsh@akustik.rwth-aachen.de, Gotfried.Behler@akustik.rwth-aachen.de, mvo@akustik.rwth-aachen.de.

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
|December 3, 2015
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