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

Ridley-Ellis, Daniel; Popescu, Carmen-Mihaela

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.

Citation

Ridley-Ellis, D., & Popescu, C.-M. (2014, September). Potential for estimating the age of instruments by characterisation of wood properties via acoustics. Presented at WoodMusiCK (FP1302) conference ‘multidisciplinary approach to wooden musical instrument identification’

• 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• Peer Reviewed: Not Peer Reviewed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