著者

伊藤 直輝 中村 弘毅 山崎 徹

出版者

一般社団法人日本機械学会

雑誌

機械力学・計測制御講演論文集 (ISSN:13480235)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.2015, pp."528-1"-"528-10", 2015-08-25

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An electric guitar is composed of a wooden body, a wooden neck, 6 steal strings and other electric parts including an electromagnetic pickup. An electric guitar convert string vibration into electric signal through a pickup, and the sound is emitted with an amplifier, or a speaker. Usually, high density and high stiffness wood is used for body material to sustain string vibration longer and the sound remains. Also, it is reported that the material of a body influences the quality of the sound. Nonetheless, there are few studies focused on detail of vibration propagation between string vibration and sound. Authors have studied on the structure of traditional instruments to clarify the vibration characteristics especially from the aspect of vibration energy propagation model in recent years. Specifically, the vibration propagation characteristics of several instruments have been evaluated using SEA: the bridge structure and the sound post of violin, and soundboard of a piano. It is expected that SEA may also help understanding sound emitting process of a guitar. In this study, vibration energy propagation of two test guitars composed of different body material are observed with experimental SEA, to evaluate the influence of body material on the guitar sound. As a result, it has represented the difference between the guitar in the vibration propagation characteristics between the neck and body. The guitar which the Young's modulus of body materials has a big has a big sound pressure level. There is a strong correlation in the frequency characteristic of input power and sound pressure level.