Instrument body responses (was [sdiy] Famous Fixed Filters - FFF PCB ?)

[Florian Anwander]

Ian Fritz wrote:

> At 10:02 AM 11/25/2007, Ingo Debus wrote:
> 
>> One could tap or knock on a violin
>> body, record it and use this as impulse response.
> 
> 
> It's not quite that simple.  The violin body radiates differently in 
> different directions, and that is part of what makes the sound what it is.
I don't know whether this german book is available in english too, but 
its one of the most useful books, I owned as soundengineer:
<http://www.ppvmedien.de/product_info.php/products_id/561/cPath/414_425/buecher/akustik-und-musikalische-auffuehrungspraxis.html>

The title print says a lot:
http://www.ppvmedien.de/images/product_images/original_images/300_9015_Akustik.gif


Florian