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Free and Forced Vibrations of Simple Systems

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Mechanical, acoustical, or electrical vibrations are the sources of sound in musical instruments. Some familiar examples are the vibrations of strings (violin, guitar, piano, etc), bars or rods (xylophone, glockenspiel, chimes, clarinet reed), membranes (drums, banjo), plates or shells (cymbal, gong, bell), air in a tube (organ pipe, brass and woodwind instruments, marimba resonator), and air in an enclosed container (drum, violin, or guitar body).

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  1. CSIRO Australia, Research School of Physical Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, A.C.T. 2601, Australia

    Neville H. Fletcher

  2. Department of Physics, Northern Illinois University, De Kalb, IL, 60115, USA

    Thomas D. Rossing

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Fletcher, N.H., Rossing, T.D. (1991). Free and Forced Vibrations of Simple Systems. In: The Physics of Musical Instruments. Springer Study Edition. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2980-3_1

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