Development of an Automatic Bow Machine for Analyzing
Harmonic Structures of the Violin Tone

Kim, Mingak; Yoo, Seungyoung; Song, Changgeun; Koo, Sungmin; Lim, Dukhwan

doi:2007.3.2.145

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Research Paper

Audiology 2007;3(2): 145-147.
Published online: December 31, 2007.
doi: http://doi.org/10.21848/audiol.2007.3.2.145

심리음향학적 바이올린 배음 구조 조정을 위한 자동 활 연주기 제작

김민각¹, 유승영¹, 송창근¹, 구성민², 임덕환³

¹한림대학교 정보통신공학부
²한림대학교 일반대학원 청각학 전공
³한림대학교 언어청각학부, 청각언어연구소

Development of an Automatic Bow Machine for Analyzing Harmonic Structures of the Violin Tone

Mingak Kim¹, Seungyoung Yoo¹, Changgeun Song¹, Sungmin Koo², Dukhwan Lim³

¹College of Information & Electronic Engineeringr, Hallym University, Chuncheon, Korea
²Section of Audiology, Graduate School, Hallym University, Chuncheon, Korea
³Section of Audiology, Audiology & Speech Pathology Research Institute, Hallym University, Chuncheon, Korea

Correspondence

Dukhwan Lim ,Tel: (033) 248-2217, Fax: (02) 6280-9133, Email: dlim@hallym.ac.kr

Received: October 3, 2007; Accepted: November 28, 2007. Published online: December 31, 2007.

ABSTRACT

The tone quality of the violin was related with several components such as sound post, sound bridge, string, bow, and more. Excluding parameters from a player’s performances, the location and quality of the sound post were considered as dominant factors. The physical properties of the sound post could change the psychological perception of tone quality and, in practice, this adjustment of the sound post has been performed on the basis of trial and error. In this preliminary experiments on violin tone control, a reliable automatic bowing machine was developed to eliminate a violin player’s variables and to explore the possibilities of tone quality control through systematic adjustments of the sound post to shape the harmonic structures of the open string tone.

Key Words: Bow·Harmonic structure·Violin.

중심단어: 활· 배음구조· 바이올린.