Acoustics of steelpans
Thomas D. Rossing, D. Scott Hampton, Uwe J. Hansen · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 1995
Steelpans are characterized by strong coupling between note areas partly due to nonlinear vibrational effects. Experimental and theoretical studies of their vibrational behavior will be discussed, and the origin of the rich spectra of harmonic overtones explained in terms of this behavior.