Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2-2012

Abstract

An experimental and theoretical investigation of the Nigerian slit gong is reported. It is shown that in tuning the gong the artisan ensures that the frequencies of the two lowest mechanical resonances are nearly coincident with the frequencies of two of the acoustic resonances of the internal cavity. Four possible tuning parameters are identified and the effects of changing these parameters is discussed.

Comments

Copyright (2012) Acoustical Society of America. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the Acoustical Society of America.

This article appeared in Cannaday, Ashley E. and August, Brandon C. and Moore, Thomas R., The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 131, 1566-1573 (2012).This article may be found at http://scitation.aip.org/content/asa/journal/jasa/131/2/10.1121/1.3675940

Publication Title

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

ISSN

0001-4966

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.3675940

Download

Share

COinS