Abstract
Damping plays a central role in the production of musical sounds. Whenever sound sources oscillate, resonators are active or structures radiate sound to the environment, damping is one of the most important parameters in the transmission chain of musical instruments. This contribution shall review the most important damping phenomena that are related to musical instruments and review measurement methods that are employed to quantify damping values. The relations between the various specific values that characterize damping are summarised, and their scopes are discussed.
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Albrecht Schneider is acknowledged for fruitful discussions and providing literature sources. Dustin Eddy is acknowledged for the assistance in the evaluation of the measurement results. The author is grateful to Michael Vorländer and Markus Müller-Trapet for the opportunity and support during the laser vibrometer measurements at the Institute of Technical Acoustics at RWTH Aachen University.
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Kob, M. (2017). Experimental Approaches to the Study of Damping in Musical Instruments. In: Schneider, A. (eds) Studies in Musical Acoustics and Psychoacoustics. Current Research in Systematic Musicology, vol 4. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47292-8_6
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