Hi, I just ran across John Sankey's study on harpsichords, at http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/Studio/1714/physics.html Here's his bibliography: P.M.Morse, Vibration and Sound. 1936. N.H.Fletcher, Analysis of the Design and Performance of Harpsichords. Acustica 37,139 1977. M.Goodway & J.S.Odell, The Metallurgy of 17- and 18th-century music wire. 1987. W.R.Savage et.al, Air and structural modes of a harpsichord. JASA 91(4):2180-9 1992. N.H.Fletcher & T.D.Rossing, The Physics of Musical Instruments. 1998. There is an error in the viscosity damping equation in both their 1st and 2nd edition (a different error in each). Clark
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