Conveners
A11.00 Musical Acoustics: S467
- Christoph Reuter (Universität Wien)
- Vasileios Chatziioannou (Univ. Music and Performing Arts Vienna)
- Charalampos Saitis
A11.00 Musical Acoustics: P470
- Christoph Reuter (Universität Wien)
- Vasileios Chatziioannou (Univ. Music and Performing Arts Vienna)
- Charalampos Saitis
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Péter Rucz (Budapest University of Technology)08/09/2026, 13:20A11 Musical Acoustics
Sound generation by air reed instruments is an active area of research. Studies on various instruments continue to reveal new details regarding the sound production mechanism. While a substantial body of knowledge is available on classical instruments, relatively few studies have focused on folk instruments. Hungarian folk flutes exhibit remarkable design diversity and can be grouped into...
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Titas Lasickas (Univ. Music and Performing Arts Vienna)08/09/2026, 13:40A11 Musical Acoustics
Tone holes are one of the primary mechanisms for pitch control in many wind instruments, yet their acoustics are not yet fully understood. This study investigates air flow in a bass recorder with an open tone hole using time-resolved particle image velocimetry (PIV). To enable the measurements, the instrument was constructed by attaching a commercial bass recorder mouthpiece to a flue pipe...
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Juan Luis de la Torre Moral (Grupo Acústica Arquitectónica, Universidad Politécnica Madrid)08/09/2026, 14:00A11 Musical Acoustics
This study investigates the relationship between the performance style and the acoustic features of the radiated sound in trumpet playing, with a focus on the variation of objective descriptors depending on the main musical style of the participant. To that aim, a total of 13 trumpet players, representing three primary stylistic domains (classical, jazz, and commercial), participated in...
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Agnieszka Pietrzak (Warsaw University of Technology)08/09/2026, 14:20A11 Musical Acoustics
This study compares acoustic profiles of choral, popular and amateur singing using a controlled corpus of 800 sustained-vowel recordings produced by 20 singers on eight pitches of a C-major scale. Studio recordings were analysed using intonation, vibrato, perturbation, and selected formant-related and spectral features. The aim of the study was to identify interpretable acoustic features that...
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Tim-Tarek Grund (Department of Music Acoustics – mdw)08/09/2026, 14:40A11 Musical Acoustics
The Dan Bau (in Vietnamese: Đàn Bầu) is a Vietnamese monochord zither that is played by exciting the harmonics of the string by 1) dampening the string at a position of an antinode with the ulnar side of the palm, followed by 2) plucking the string in an upwards motion with a long plectrum while 3) releasing the dampening. Changing the tension of the string by inflecting the bending rod on...
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Michael Oehler (Osnabrück University)09/09/2026, 15:00A11 Musical Acoustics
Surface finish is frequently discussed by brass players as a determinant of sound and playability, yet such judgments may be influenced not only by acoustical differences but also by visual information and prior expectations. This exploratory pilot study examines whether perceived differences between three nominally comparable trumpets are larger when their surface finishes are visible and...
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Jan Jasiński (AGH University of Krakow)09/09/2026, 15:00A11 Musical Acoustics
Robotic excitation systems have become increasingly relied upon for acoustic studies on string instruments, utilizing geometric (open-loop) calibration: moving the exciter to fixed coordinates. While such calibration is highly repeatable within a single session, comparative metrology inherently requires remounting instruments. This study shows that open-loop calibration is insufficient for...
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Jan Jasiński (AGH University of Krakow)09/09/2026, 15:00A11 Musical Acoustics
The tuning of guitar soundboards is traditionally anirreversible subtractive process, relying on the removal of bracingmaterial. This study proposes a reversible, additive approach utilizingtop plate mounted Locally Resonant Metamaterials (LRMs) to suppresspathological resonances arising from strong string-body coupling,commonly referred to as wolf tones, which cause uneven note decay....
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