Choosing Strings for Plucked Musical Instruments

Q1 Arts and Humanities

Acta Acustica united with Acustica Pub Date : 2019-05-10 DOI:10.3813/AAA.919333

J. Woodhouse, Nicolas J. Lynch-Aird

引用次数: 6

Abstract

The various factors constraining the choice of synthetic polymer and natural gut strings for musical instruments are discussed, including a newly-formulated constraint based on the internal damping of the string material. It is shown that all these constraints can be summarised graphically in a design chart, and calibrated versions of the chart are presented for monofilament strings of nylon, fluorocarbon and natural gut. Based on these charts, detailed case studies are presented for the stringing of a lute and a harp. An explanation is suggested for why harpists continue to favour gut over nylon. © 2019 The Author(s). Published by S. Hirzel Verlag · EAA. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CCBY4.0) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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为拨弦乐器选择弦

讨论了制约乐器选用合成聚合物和天然肠弦的各种因素，包括一种基于弦材料内部阻尼的新规定约束。结果表明，所有这些限制条件都可以用图形化的方式总结在一张设计图表中，并给出了尼龙、氟碳和天然羊绒单丝线的校准版本。基于这些图表，详细的案例研究了琵琶和竖琴的弦乐器。对于为什么竖琴师继续偏爱羊绒而不是尼龙，有人提出了一种解释。©2019作者。S. Hirzel Verlag·EAA出版。这是一篇基于知识共享署名(CCBY4.0)许可(https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)的开放获取文章。

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Acta Acustica united with Acustica 物理-声学

CiteScore

2.60

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0.00%

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审稿时长

6.8 months

期刊介绍： Cessation. Acta Acustica united with Acustica (Acta Acust united Ac), was published together with the European Acoustics Association (EAA). It was an international, peer-reviewed journal on acoustics. It published original articles on all subjects in the field of acoustics, such as • General Linear Acoustics, • Nonlinear Acoustics, Macrosonics, • Aeroacoustics, • Atmospheric Sound, • Underwater Sound, • Ultrasonics, • Physical Acoustics, • Structural Acoustics, • Noise Control, • Active Control, • Environmental Noise, • Building Acoustics, • Room Acoustics, • Acoustic Materials and Metamaterials, • Audio Signal Processing and Transducers, • Computational and Numerical Acoustics, • Hearing, Audiology and Psychoacoustics, • Speech, • Musical Acoustics, • Virtual Acoustics, • Auditory Quality of Systems, • Animal Bioacoustics, • History of Acoustics.