Acoustic Guitars

This section addresses some modeling considerations specific to acoustic guitars. Section 9.2.1 discusses special properties of acoustic guitar bridges, and §9.2.1 gives ways to simulate passive bridges, including a look at some laboratory measurements. For further reading in this area, see, e.g., [281,128].

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Subsections

• Bridge Modeling
  • Passive String Terminations
  • A Terminating Resonator
  • Bridge Reflectance
  • Bridge Transmittance
  • Digitizing Bridge Reflectance
  • A Two-Resonance Guitar Bridge
  • Measured Guitar-Bridge Admittance
  • Building a Synthetic Guitar Bridge Admittance
  • Passive Reflectance Synthesis--Method 1
  • Passive Reflectance Synthesis--Method 2
  • Matlab for Passive Reflectance Synthesis Method 1
  • Matlab for Passive Reflectance Synthesis Method 2
  • Matrix Bridge Impedance
  
  
• Body Modeling

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About the Author: Julius Orion Smith III
Julius Smith's background is in electrical engineering (BS Rice 1975, PhD Stanford 1983). He is presently Professor of Music and Associate Professor (by courtesy) of Electrical Engineering at Stanford's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), teaching courses and pursuing research related to signal processing applied to music and audio systems. See http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/ for details.