The Bowed String

Elementary Stability Considerations for Bowed-String Motion

Torsional waves in a bowed string

Bowing a string with a non-zero radius exerts a torque, which excites torsional waves. In general, torsional standing waves have higher fundamental frequencies than do transverse standing waves, and there is generally no harmonic relationship between them. Although torsional waves have little direct acoustic effect, the motion of the bow-string contact depends on the sum of the transverse speed...

Expressive Controllers for Bowed String Physical Models

In this paper we propose different approaches to control a real-time physical model of a bowed string instrument. Starting from a commercially available device, we show how to improve the gestural control of the model.

Gesture based synthesis of bowed string instruments

Synthesis of traditional music instruments has been an active research area and there exist successful implementations of instruments with low degree of control like non-sustained excitation instruments. But for instruments with sustained excitation, such as bowed strings or wind instruments, where the interaction between instrument and performer is continuous, the quality of existing models is...

Data driven identification and computer animation of bowed string model

The goal of this paper is to provide a technique to estimate the input parameters for a waveguide physical model. This work is motivated by the fact that the input parameters strongly influence the quality of the synthetic sound produced by the model. Though we examine the case of a bowed string instrument, this technique can be used to estimate parameters of other self-sustained oscillators. W...