Politzer, David and Woodhouse, Jim (2022) Four Banjo Necks and One Pot. . (Unpublished) https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20220819-214307200
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Abstract
Four necks of different type of wood with the same shape and hardware were attached to a single pot, with the same set-up. Sound files of played music and single plucks are provided. Most people will recognize small differences in the pluck sounds and identify the necks (albeit not unambiguously) in the played music either from experience or “training” from labeled examples. It is not known whether the differences arise solely from the wood or from some other inadvertent variation. Spectrograms show differences in intensity and decay time across the entire frequency range. These differences reflect differences in timbre and its time evolution. No simple physics narrative is identified to connect weight and large-scale stiffness to the observed sound variations.
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Additional Information: | The manuscript refers to 36 mp3 sound files, all initially on-line at http://www.its.caltech.edu/~politzer/neck-wood. The first 7 are there in a folder called "plucks." The next 27 are in TUNES-mp3s. And 2 are synthesized versions of Arkansas Traveler. | |||||||||
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Deposited By: | H. Politzer | |||||||||
Deposited On: | 24 Aug 2022 17:17 | |||||||||
Last Modified: | 24 Aug 2022 17:17 |
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