Video 1. Helmholtz string wave excited by slip-stick mechanism of moving bow (University of New South Wales, courtesy of Joe Wolfe). Audio 1 Audio 2 Audio 3 Video 2. Visualisation of empty shell modes in vacuum before opening f-holes or adding...
Modelling Violin Modes Introduction In Figure S1 we first describe how the modes of the initially freely supported plates are transformed, when coupled together around their edges by the ribs, into those of the empty body shell. This relationship is of considerable...
Norman C. Pickering passes on at 99. Norman C. Pickering, an engineer, inventor and musician whose pursuit of audio clarity and beauty helped make phonograph records and musical instruments sound better, died on Nov. 18 at his home in East Hampton, N.Y. He was 99. ...
The Acoustical Society of America honors Dr. Per V. Brüel, a leader in acoustics and acoustic instrumentation, who passed away on April 2 2015, just after his 100th birthday, March 6, 2015. For more than 75 years Dr. Brüel has been in the forefront of acoustic...
