A PARAMETRIC STUDY OF THE BOWED STRING: THE VIOLINIST'S MENAGERIE
Me Mcintyre, Jim Woodhouse · 2024
There are many ways to make an unsatisfactory noise on a violin.Some of these require extreme actions of one kind or another from the player, but there are a few which even the best players slip into from time to time when playing near the limits of the normal performance regime.Indeed, these undesirable regimes determine those limits.We explore this 'rogue's gallery" (of bowed-string motions of direct interest to musicians) using simple theory complemented by observations and numerical simulations of bowed string motion. in an attempt to understand under what conditions the usual regime for steady playing is accessible.