Supplementary Recordings of Banjo and Resonator Guitar

Abstract

Two recordings complement recent work. One is a particularly fine-sounding flat plastic substitute for the aluminum cone of a resonator guitar. The other presents the sounds of taps on a banjo head, by itself, i.e., without strings. The repeated taps produce a sound akin to a cymbal, in addition to the expected thump-thump-thump. This had been identified as one of the two major sources of inharmonic partials in string plucks on the banjo.

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