Is There a Perfect Marimba Bar? The Art and Science of Bar Tuning
Friday, April 11, 2003 4:00 p.m. Professor David Peterson Department of Mathematics University of Central Arkansas, Conway, Arkansas http://www.uca.edu/divisions/academic/math http://www.uca.edu Vibrating bars have been extensively studied and the theory is well understood. But unlike a vibrating string, mode frequencies are not integer multiples of the fundamental. By carving a bar in various ways it is…