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The acoustics of the steel string guitar

dc.contributor.author Inta, Ra Ata en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2022-03-21T15:55:50Z
dc.date.available 2022-03-21T15:55:50Z
dc.date.issued 2007 en_US
dc.description.abstract To improve the replication of acoustic guitars, measurements of three Martin OOO style steel-string guitars were made at various stages of their construction. The guitars were constructed in parallel, as similar to each other as possible, with the exception of the soundboard material---which were made of Sitka spruce, Engelmann spruce and Western Red cedar. To improve the similarity of the instruments, methods were developed to measure and control the material properties of key components before their incorporation into the instruments, including a device to measure the thickness of a guitar soundboard attached to the back and sides of the instrument. Some of these measurements were compared to numerical models of the instrument and, after the establishment of a lexicon to describe guitar sounds, some physical factors contributing towards the timbre of guitar sounds were determined. The results of these investigations may be developed to improve the consistency in the manufacture of stringed musical instruments. en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1959.4/40471
dc.language English
dc.language.iso EN en_US
dc.publisher UNSW, Sydney en_US
dc.rights CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 en_US
dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/au/ en_US
dc.subject.other Acoustics. en_US
dc.subject.other Guitar. en_US
dc.subject.other Vibration. en_US
dc.subject.other Steel-string. en_US
dc.subject.other Luthier. en_US
dc.subject.other Music. en_US
dc.subject.other Guitar -- Construction. en_US
dc.subject.other Guitar -- Acoustics. en_US
dc.title The acoustics of the steel string guitar en_US
dc.type Thesis en_US
dcterms.accessRights open access
dcterms.rightsHolder Inta, Ra Ata
dspace.entity.type Publication en_US
unsw.accessRights.uri https://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2
unsw.identifier.doi https://doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/17545
unsw.relation.faculty Science
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation Inta, Ra Ata, Physics, Faculty of Science, UNSW en_US
unsw.relation.school School of Physics *
unsw.thesis.degreetype PhD Doctorate en_US
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