Physics-Based Sound Synthesis of the Piano

Master's Thesis

Balázs Bank, Physics-Based Sound Synthesis of the Piano, Master's thesis, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Department of Measurement and Information Systems, Hungary, published as Report 54 of Helsinki University of Technology, Laboratory of Acoustics and Audio Signal Processing, May 2000.
 

The thesis is about the synthesis of piano sound based on physical principles.
abstract

The full text:
PDF (1.6 Mb)
Post Script (Win Zipped, 1.4 Mb)

Listen to the sound examples !

The thesis is also published in the Report Series of the HUT Acoustics Laboratory. Please contact secretary Lea Söderman if you wish to obtain a printed copy.