The acoustical properties of wood for instruments have mostly been studied on a few
archetypal woods in Western musical instruments. The objective of this paper is to extend …

In musical instrument making, there is a strong need to find alternatives to the traditional
endangered and expensive tropical wood species used today. The present study examined …

Xylophone sounds produced by striking wooden bars with a mallet are strongly influenced
by the mechanical properties of the wood species chosen by the xylophone maker. In this …

A batch of 54 tropical species was analyzed using free-vibration and forced-released
vibration tests. The free-vibration tests were conducted by bending and compression using …

UETIMANE JR E & ALI AC. 2011. Relationship between mechanical properties and selected
features of ntholo (Pseudolachnostylis maprounaefolia). The anatomical features of the …

Vène wood (Pterocarpus erinaceus Poir.) is currently the favorite wood for manufacture of
xylophone in Mali. A dynamic analysis method with free boundary conditions, known as …

Stress-wave analysis is a powerful and flexible technique to study mechanical properties of
many materials. We present a simple technique to obtain information about the species of …

Australian hardwood species have potential in musical instrumentation replacing hardwood
species such as Dalbergia latifolia (Indian rosewood-IRW) which is the main species used in …

The wood of the spruce tree (Picea spp.) has been valued for centuries as an ideal
soundboard for stringed instruments due to its material acoustic properties. There is large …

Rosewood species are used around the world in musical instrument component
manufacture, most commonly for the use as the guitar fretboard. Due to the overuse of these …