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Violin Acoustics Biosketch
Fritz, C., Curtin, J., Poitevineau, J., Morrel-Samuels, P., and Tao, F.-C. (2012). Player preferences among new and old violin. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 109,760-763.
Gough, C. E. (1981). The theory of string resonances on musical instru- ments. Acta Acustica united with Acustica 49, 124-141.
Gough, C .E. (2005). Measurement, modelling and synthesis of violin vi- brato sounds. Acta Acustica united with Acustica 9, 229-240.
Gough, C. E. (2015a). Violin plate modes. Journal of the Violin Society of America 20,161-174.
Gough, C. E. (2015b). A violin shell model: Vibrational modes and acous- tics. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 137, 1210-1225.
Guettler, K. (2010). Bows, strings and bowing. In Rossing, T. (Ed.), The Sci- ence of String Instruments. Springer-Verlag, New York, pp. 279-300.
Guettler, K., and Askenfelt, A., (1997). Acceptance limits for the duration of pre-Helmholtz transients in bowed string attacks. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 10, 2904-2913.
Helmholtz, H. (1863). On the Sensations of Tone. Dover, New York (first published in 1863 with a 4th edition in 1885).
Kinsler, L. E, Frey, A. R., Coppens, A. B., and Sanders, J. V. (1982). Funda- mentals of Acoustics, 3rd ed. Wiley, New York.
McIntyre, M. E., and Woodhouse, J. (1979). On the fundamentals of bowed- string dynamics. Acustica 43, 93-108.
Meyer, J. (1992). Zur klanglichen Wirkung des Streicher-Vibratos. Acustica 76, 283-291.
Stoppani, G. (2013). Acoustic measurements in the workshop. In Proceed- ings of the Stockholm Musical Acoustics Conference 2013, Stockholm, Swe- den, July 30 to August 3, 2013, pp. 16-23.
Weinreich, G. (1985). Sound hole sum rule and the dipole moment of the violin. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 77, 710-718.
Weinreich, G. (1997). Directional tone color. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 101, 2338-2346.
Wolfe, J. (2016). Bows and Strings. The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. Available at http://newt.phys.unsw.edu.au/jw/Bows. html.
Woodhouse, J. (2014). The acoustics of the violin: A review. Reports on Progress in Physics 77, 115901. Available at http://iopscience.iop.org/ar- ticle/10.1088/0034-4885/77/11/115901/pdf.
Woodhouse, J., and Langley, R. S. (2012). Interpreting the input admittance of violins and guitars. Acta Acustica united with Acustica 98, 611-628.
Zygmuntowicz, S., and Bissinger, G. (2009). Strad 3D, A Unified Inquiry. A 2-volume set of CD ROMs.
Colin Gough is an Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of Birming- ham, Birmingham, UK, where he re- searched the quantum wave mechanical, ultrasonic, and microwave properties of both normal and high-temperature su- perconductors. As a “weekend” profes-
sional violinist, musical acoustics has always been an add- ed interest, publishing papers on various aspects of violin acoustics, teaching, and supervising courses and projects for undergraduate physics students. In recent years, he has been on the staff of the annual Oberlin Violin Acoustics Work- shops. He contributed chapters on Musical Acoustics and The Electric Guitar and Violin for Springer’s Handbook of Acoustics and The Science of String Instruments, respectively.
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Bissinger, G. (2008a). Structural acoustics of good and bad violins. The Jour- nal of the Acoustical Society of America 124, 1764-1773.
Bissinger, G. (2008b). Structural acoustics model of the violin radiativity profile. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 124, 4013-4023.
Cremer, L. (1984). The Physics of the Violin. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. Curtin, J. (2006). Tap tones and weights of Old Italian violin tops. Journal of
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Curtin, J. (2009). Measuring violin sound radiation using an impact ham-
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Dunnewald, H. (1991). Deduction of objective quality parameters of old
and new violins. Journal of Catgut Acoustical Society 1.7, 1-5.
Fritz, C., Curtin, J., Poitevineau, J., Borsarello, H., Wollman, I., Tao, F.-C., and Ghasarossian, T. (2014). Soloist evaluations of six old Italian and six new violins. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United
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