Wood cellulose microfibril (CMF) is the most abundant organic substance on Earth but its
nanostructure remains poorly understood. There are controversies regarding the glucan …

Environmental influences and differential growth subject plants to mechanical forces. Forces
on the whole plant resolve into tensile forces on its primary cell walls and both tensile and …

The acoustic features of old resonance wood in violins exhibit a superior quality when
compared to those from new resonance wood. This study focuses on an assessment of the …

Over the last few decades, chemical and physical studies on bowed string musical
instruments have provided a better understanding of their wooden finished surface …

Boron compounds (BC) are eco-friendly and effective wood preservatives and have recently
been found in the soundboards of Stradivari and Guarneri stringed musical instruments …

The guqin is a seven-string zither invented 3000 years ago that plays a central role in
Chinese musical traditions, with a cultural status comparable to that of Old Italian violins in …

In this work, one of the two existing mandolins made by Antonio Stradivari has been
investigated for the first time, as a rare exemplar of the lesser-known class of plucked string …

It is commonly believed that violins sound differently when finished. However, if the role of
varnishes on the vibrational properties of these musical instruments is well-established, how …

In the acoustics of musical instruments with a resonator body, the aging of the wood leads to
the improvement of the acoustic properties due to increasing the crystallinity of wood. This …

The multi-layered and multi-material structures of a violin's surface varnish film make it more
challenging to comprehensively understand the patterns of sound quality changes during …