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THE SCIENCE AND APPLICATIONS OF ACOUSTICS - H. H. Arnold ...

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530 18. Music and Musical InstrumentsBOWSTICKHEADHAIRFROGSCREWSCROLLPEGSPEGBOXNECKBACK PLATEFINGERBOARDPURLINGBASS BARRIBSTRINGSSOUND POSTBRIDGETOP PLATE(BELLY)TAILPIECEF-HOLES (SOUND HOLES)CHIN RESTBUTTONATUNERFigure 18.18. Construction details of a violin and nomenclature of its structural elements.These instruments developed in Italy during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuriesrequire extremely sophisticated skills to construct. Their quality of craftsmanshipreached a peak during the eighteenth century in Cremona, Italy, particularlyunder the skilled hands of Antonio Stradivari (1644–1737) and GuiseppeGuarneri del Gesù (1698–1744). Because of the complexity of their constructionthat affects the quality of their tones, the violin family has been the object ofmuch acoustical research. Savart, Helmholtz, and the Nobel Laureate C. V. Raman(1888–1970) contributed to the understanding of the generation of sound with theseinstruments (Savart, 1840; Raman, 1918; Helmholtz, 1954). In more recent times,considerable work has been conducted in Germany through the efforts of Werner

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