The effect of bowing technique on violin sound
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.32972/dms.2024.009Keywords:
bowing technique, sound measurement, Total Harmonic Distortion, inharmonicity, frequency spectrum, sharpness, roughnessAbstract
By the bowing of a violin especially by folk and gipsy bands a special bowing technique can be observed. Often a diagonal (not perpendicular to the string) bowing, resp. the bow slids onto the fingerboard. This study deals with the effect of this special bowing technique on the emitted sound of a violin and compares it with the classic detaché bowing technique on all four strings.
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