Special issue: wooden musical instruments

Contents

Beyond the boundaries : a multidisciplinary approach of the musical instrument / S. Le Conte -- Perception of old musical instruments / S. Vaiedelich and C. Fritz -- A curator's dearest child : examining musical instruments for collection catalogues / F.P. Bär -- A review of basic procedures for an organological examination of plucked-string instruments / J. Ray, A. García, A. Manjón and T. Holt -- Critical study of the use of a length unit in the design of 16th to 18th century Italian violins / S.R. Zopf -- Reconstructing historical recipes of linseed oil/colophony varnishes : influence of preparation processes on application properties / S. Tirat, J.-P. Echard, A. Lattuati-Derieux, J.-Y. Le Huerou and S. Serfaty -- Dating of violins : the interpretation of dendrochronological reports / K. Cufar, M. Beuting, B. Demsar and M. Merela -- Dendrochronological investigation of the bowed string instruments at the Theatre Museum Carlo Schmidl in Trieste, Italy / M. Bernabei, J. Bontadi, K. Cufar and A. Baici -- Effects of natural and artificial ageing on the physical and acoustic properties of wood in musical instruments / E. Obataya -- A non-invasive approach to identifying wood species in historical musical instruments / M. Fioravanti, G. Di Giulio and G. Signorini -- Nondestructive research on wooden musical instruments : from macro- to microscale imaging with lab-based X-ray CT systems / J. Van den Bulcke, D. Van Loo, M. Dierick, B. Masschaele, L. Van Hoorebeke and J. Van Acker -- Comparison of different experimental approaches in the tomographic analysis of ancient violins / N. Sodini, D. Dreossi, A. Giordano, J. Kaiser, F. Zanini and T. Zikmund -- Numerical modelling of wooden structures / D. Konopka, C. Gebhardt and M. Kaliske -- Experimental assessment of the effect of an eventual non-invasive intervention on a Torres guitar through vibration testing / M.A. Pérez, A. Manjón, J. Ray and R. Serra-López -- 18th and 19th French harp classification using vibration analysis / J.-L. Le Carrou, S. Le Conte and J. Dugot -- Historical and dynamical study of piano actions : a multibody modelling approach / B. Bokiau, A.-E. Ceulemans and P. Fisette.