[LAU] Bell characteristics (list of partials)

Fons Adriaensen fons at linuxaudio.org
Sun Dec 11 21:36:13 UTC 2011


On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 07:11:58PM +0100, Julien Claassen wrote:

>   I'm trying to design a bell with csound. I found a bit of material on 
> the web, but most of it has only graphic representations of the partials 
> of the sound and their suggested envelopes. I found one side with some 
> basic settings.

It's a fascinating subject. A lot of info is available on 
<http://www.hibberts.co.uk/>, including some interesting
historical papers (one by Rayleigh himself, and an account
of an historical court case involving bells).

If you follow the link 'Bell collection' you'll find a number
of pages that preset measured partial frequencies in html table
format. You'll need some (simple) calculations to convert those
to Hz, but they look quite interesting.

Ciao,

-- 
FA

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