Abstract
The study of the acoustics of bowed instruments has for several reasons focused on the violin. A substantial amount of knowledge has been accumulated over the last century (see Hutchins 1975, 1976; Hutchins and Benade 1997). The violin is discussed in Chap. 13, while the cello is discussed in Chap. 14. The bow is discussed in Chap. 16.
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In this chapter the label T 1 is used in all figures to indicate mode C 2.
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The Amati bass was passed from Koussevitzky to the American bass virtuoso Gary Karr who kindly put the bass at our disposal for measurements (http://www.garykarr.com).
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Askenfelt, A. (2010). Double Bass. In: Rossing, T. (eds) The Science of String Instruments. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7110-4_15
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