Investigation of Piano Soundboard Voicing Techniques and Their Impact on Tone

This thesis acts as a first step in connecting the sub jective description of piano tone with quantitative measurements of changes in the vibrational and acoustical properties of a piano. Voicing techniques used by piano technicians are applied to a fully strung test piano and a series of tests are u...

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Main Author: Borland, Matt
Language:en
Published: 2009
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10012/4302