hammer/string references

[Stephen Birkett]

As requested, references to the hammer/string analysis are listed
below:

1. D.E. Hall, Piano string interaction in the case of a small
hammer mass. J. Acoustical. Soc. Amer. 79 (1986) 141-147.

2. D.E. Hall, Piano string excitation II: General solution for
a hard narrow hammer. J. Acoustical. Soc. Amer. 81 (1987) 535-546.

3. D.E. Hall, Piano string excitation III: General solution for
a soft narrow hammer. J. Acoustical. Soc. Amer. 81 (1987) 547-555.

4. D.E. Hall, Piano string excitation IV: The question of missing
modes. J. Acoustical. Soc. Amer. 82 (1987) 1913-1918.

5. H. Suzuki, Model analysis of a hammer-string interaction. J.
Acoustical. Soc. Amer. 82 (1987) 1145-1151.

There are some other papers by Suzuki and colleagues, but there are
in Japanese unfortunately. There is also a fifth paper by Hall in the
series, but I haven't got that one yet.


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