Acoustics of Baltic psaltery; a new outstanding Latvian Kokle
Andres Peekna, Thomas D. Rossing · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2005
We have studied the acoustics of a Latvian Baltic Psaltery (kokle) which was judged by performing and recording musicians to be outstanding. Previous work by the authors pointed out the importance of a high population of body-resonances within the tuning range of the instrument, with good string-to-resonance coupling also playing an important role. This particular kokle shows outstanding coupling of strings to body-resonances, with all strings evidencing some degree of coupling. In some cases, the strings couple to a superposition of more than one body-resonance.