Guitar Acoustics

Guitar pages on this site

• Basics about sound and how a guitar works
• Anatomy of an acoustic guitar
• Acoustics and components
• Acoustics and measurements
• Animations and diagrams of guitar body vibrations obtained from finite element models
• An introduction to vibrating modes of a guitar top plate and a whole body and their visualization by Chladni-patterns
• a library of Chladni-patterns of a guitar top plate

Some explanatory notes and related pages on this site

• General information and related pages
  • Strings, harmonics and standing waves
  • An introduction to Chladni-patterns
  • What is a sound spectrum?
  • What is a decibel?
  • Helmholtz resonance

• make precise objective measurements of the relevant properties of instruments
• describe the difference between instruments which musicians judge good or poor and
• explain the above

Industrial collaborator: Gilet Guitars, Sydney