Vibroacoustics and psychoacoustics investigation of biodegradable composites for musical instruments
10.15660/AUOFMTE.2018-2.3360
Jorge Segura Alcaraz, José María Gadea Borrell, Ernesto Juliá Sanchis, José Enrique Crespo Amorósl, Isaac Montava Belda, Sofía Rebagliato Torregrosa
Volume XXVII (XVII), 2018/2
Due to the extinction of some wood species used to manufacture guitars, there is a trend to search new alternative materials with the same acoustic performance. There is a wide range of tonewoods: ebony, rosewood, yellow and red cedar, mongoy and sapelli, among others. These woods have high resonance qualities and the requirements are both acoustical and mechanical. In this work, alternative composite materials have been manufactured to compare dynamic and psychoacoustic parameters with the commonly used woods. This comparison will allow to conclude the possibility of using these materials as substitutive of tonewoods.
vibroacoustics, psychoacoustics, biodegradable, musical instruments
ISSN 1583-0691, CNCSIS "Clasa B+"