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The Catgut Acoustical Society Library |
| File #: | T2980 |
| Name: | Tenney, James C |
| Dates: |
| See also: | M4295 - Mathews, M V |
| General Information: |
| Included is a computer study of the analysis and synthesis of violin tones done by a group at the Bell |
| Telephone Laboratories, Murray Hill (M.V.Mathews, J.E.Miller, J.R.Pierce) and James Tenney of Yale |
| University, using a violin from the Yale Collection and recording in an anechoic chamber on magnetic |
| tape transferred to digital recordings, subsequently used as input data for a set of computer programs. |
| Successive periods of the signal were analyzed giving measures of frequency, amplitude, and spectral |
| parameters with results printed out in numerical form, also with a graphic display. Of particular interest |
| are John Schelleng's comments indicating, among other things that the authors did not understand the |
| basic action of the bowed string, nor had they had reference to the definitive work on the bowed string |
| by C V Raman in 1919. |
| File Contents: |
| T2980 | -- | 101 |
| Technical: BTL Memo 1965 `Computer Study of Violin Tones' with M V Mathews, J E Miller & J R |
| Pierce ; Critiqued in a letter to Pierce by J C Schelling; Report to the NSF & Proposal for continued |
| work on project ` An experimental investigation of (violin) timbre'. |
| Key Words: | Violin timbre | String excitation |