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TIMBRAL DIFFERENTIATION OF WESTERN AND INDIAN STYLE VIOLIN SOUNDS

Abstract

Violin is one of the most popular and major musical instrument in Indian musical scenario; both in classical and commercial purpose. With Growing popularity and unavailability of expensive western violins, insisted Indian musical instrument makers to make it. This has increased our inquisitiveness to understand the actual timbral quality and spectral features of these two types of violins. The objective of this research work is to compare the timbral and spectral quality of Western and Indian made violins. Using signal processing, this study attempts to define the violin‘s sound quality via physical characteristics and resonance patterns and is focused on the violin‘s complete timbre space and to compare the sound quality among different violin sounds. We have sound signals from Italian and Indian made violins. The timbral and spectral features are used to analyze sound source characteristics of violin and are helpful in comparing the sound quality of Italian and Indian made violin. Timbre features helps in defining the timbre space of violin and spectral features are used to compare sound of violin. A relationship between the lower frequency fundamental energy and the higher frequency harmonic structure in violin was observed. Rich timbre space of violin is observed which depends not only upon its construction and structure but also on the bowing technique. The results might be useful to improve the timbral quality of Indian made violins.

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