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Bork, 1995 - Google Patents

Practical tuning of xylophone bars and resonators

Bork, 1995

Document ID
760420571199100565
Author
Bork I
Publication year
Publication venue
Applied Acoustics

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The sound of the xylophone is governed by the natural frequencies of the wooden bars struck. The nonharmonic relationship of the overtones is responsible for the poor tonal quality of simple instruments when only the fundamental is tuned. A significant improvement …
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