Proceedings of the 10th Convention of the
European Acoustics Association
Forum Acusticum 2023


Politecnico di Torino
Torino, Italy
September 11 - 15, 2023





Session: A07-06: From FEM- to machine learning-based analysis and modeling of musical instruments - Part II
Date: Tuesday 12 September 2023
Time: 14:20 - 14:40
Title: Investigation Of Bracings Transformations On Voboam Guitars: What Can Uncalibrated FEM Models Tell Us?
Author(s): V. Gauthier, ECR team, Musée de la Musique, CRC UAR3224, 221 Avenue Jean-Jaurès, 75019 Paris, France
V. Almanza, ECR team, Musée de la Musique, CRC UAR3224, 221 Avenue Jean-Jaurès, 75019 Paris, France
M. Jossic, ECR team, Musée de la Musique, CRC UAR3224, 221 Avenue Jean-Jaurès, 75019 Paris, France
S. Kirsch, ECR team, Musée de la Musique, CRC UAR3224, 221 Avenue Jean-Jaurès, 75019 Paris, France
E. Foltête, Department of Applied Mechanics, FEMTO-ST Institute, Univ. Bourgogne Franche-Comté, UMR 6174, CNRS/UFC/ENSMM/UTBM, F-25000 Besançon, France
S. Cogan, Department of Applied Mechanics, FEMTO-ST Institute, Univ. Bourgogne Franche-Comté, UMR 6174, CNRS/UFC/ENSMM/UTBM, F-25000 Besançon, France
J.-P. Echard, ECR team, Musée de la Musique, CRC UAR3224, 221 Avenue Jean-Jaurès, 75019 Paris, France
N. Wilkie-Chancellier, SATIE, CY Cergy Paris Université, 5 mail Gay Lussac, 95000 Neuville, France
S. Vaiedelich, ECR team, Musée de la Musique, CRC UAR3224, 221 Avenue Jean-Jaurès, 75019 Paris, France
Pages: 1817-1824
DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.61782/fa.2023.0867
PDF: https://dael.euracoustics.org/confs/fa2023/data/articles/000867.pdf
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Abstract

The Baroque guitar was one of the most popular instruments among the French nobility, especially at the court of Louis XIV. The instrument makers of the Voboam family (1640-1731) helped to set the standard for Parisian Baroque guitars, particularly in terms of proportions and decorative features. Twenty-nine guitars of these makers are still extant, among which nine are preserved at the Musée de la musique, Paris. These instruments exhibit significant material transformations which are part of the instruments’ material histories. Various modifications of the bracings glued underneath the soundboards are prone to have a strong impact on the vibrational behaviour of the instruments. This paper aims to provide answers to clarify the potential sound intention behind these transformations. Using 3D-scan imaging, the dimensional differences of the eight soundboards are proved to be small enough to create one numerical model whose soundbox is representative of the corpus. The influence of two allegedly ”typical” bracings - one possibly original, and one ”typical” of a latter modification - on the vibration modes is then studied using X-radiography and FEM analysis. The dynamical analysis is then coupled to uncertainties analyses to evaluate the influence of material and geometrical lack of knowledge on the results.