Technical Papers and Presentations

The paper attempts to give a contribution to the dynamic analysis of musical instruments. A multidisciplinary approach oriented to the study of mechanical, structural, vibratory and acoustical phenomena related to stringed instruments is discussed. The case study focused in this paper concerns the violins family: the geometry and the vibratory propagation of this instrument is very complicated to study by means of classical numerical models. The fluid – structure interactions are very exciting to be focused on by multiphysics approaches. The variety of mechanical and physical phenomena concerning bowed musical instruments requires an approach of study integrated between theoretical and experimental procedures.