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Raffaele Malvermi
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2021
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Informatics Engineering
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Frequency Response Functions (FRFs) are one of the cornerstones of musical acoustic experimental research. They describe the way in which musical instruments vibrate in a wide range of frequencies and are used to predict and understand the acoustic differences between them. In the specific case of stringed musical instruments such as violins, FRFs evaluated at the bridge are known to capture the overall body vibration. These indicators, also called bridge admittances, are widely used in the literature for comparative analyses. However, due to their complex structure they are rather difficult to quantitatively compare and study. In this manuscript we present a way to quantify differences between FRFs, in particular violin bridge admittances, that separates the effects in frequency, amplitude and quality factor of the first resonance peaks characterizing the responses. This approach allows us to define a distance between FRFs and clusterise measurements according to this distance. We use two case studies, one based on Finite Element Analysis and another exploiting measurements on real violins, to prove the effectiveness of such representation. In particular, for simulated bridge admittances the proposed distance is able to highlight the different impact of consecutive simulation `steps on specific vibrational properties and, for real violins, gives a first insight on similar styles of making, as well as opposite ones.
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