String instruments are complex mechanical vibrating systems, in terms of both structure and
fluid–structure interaction. Here, a review study of the modeling and simulation of stringed …

Of all the characteristics of a violin, those that concern its shape are probably the most
important ones, as the violin maker has complete control over them. Contemporary violin …

Information retrieval and machine learning have grown to the point of playing a leading role
in all aspects of sound analysis. There are some research areas, however, in which the …

One of the biggest challenges in guitar-making is consistency: even though two guitars are
made of the same tree, with the same geometry and manufactured with exactly the same …

Featured Application The use of mechanical metamaterials in musical instruments could be
an excellent way to engineer the wood of the instrument to obtain a particular sound …

The identification of material parameters of classical guitars is particularly interesting as the
orthotropic material parameters of wood vary largely and lead to hearable differences even …

In the present work, we had the opportunity to study the coating systems of three different
coeval violins, namely “Spagnoletti”,“Stauffer”, and “Principe Doria”, made by Giuseppe …

Inspired by deep learning applications in structural mechanics, we focus on how to train two
predictors to model the relation between the vibrational response of a prescribed point of a …

We recently developed a neural network that receives as input the geometrical and
mechanical parameters that define a violin top plate and gives as output its first ten …

We analyze the modal response of the top plates of archtop guitars using free boundary
conditions. Starting from the three-dimensional scan of a real archtop guitar, we build a …