Potential for estimating the age of instruments by characterisation of wood properties via acoustics.

Ridley-Ellis, Daniel; Popescu, Carmen-Mihaela

Potential for estimating the age of instruments by characterisation of wood properties via acoustics.

Ridley-Ellis, Daniel; Popescu, Carmen-Mihaela

Authors

Dr Dan Ridley-Ellis D.Ridley-Ellis@napier.ac.uk
Associate Professor

Carmen-Mihaela Popescu

Abstract

The performance of musical instruments is sensitive to several wood properties that are affected by aging. These wood properties also change with temperature and humidity in ways that interact with (and change as a result of) aging processes. This offers possibilities for estimating the age of instruments by the characterisation of wood properties through acoustic assessment.

Conference Name	WoodMusiCK (FP1302) conference ‘multidisciplinary approach to wooden musical instrument identification’
Start Date	Sep 30, 2014
End Date	Oct 1, 2014
Online Publication Date	Oct 1, 2014
Publication Date	2014
Deposit Date	May 27, 2015
Publicly Available Date	May 27, 2015
Peer Reviewed	Not Peer Reviewed
Keywords	Musical wood instruments; wood properties; acoustics; aging process;
Public URL	http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/8224