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The sound of the udu

Classical Physics 2022-06-14 v2 Physics Education
Authors: Leonardo Pereira Vieira , Carlos Eduardo Aguiar
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Abstract

The udu is a traditional Nigerian percussion instrument that can be thought of as a Helmholtz resonator with two apertures. We use a simple two-particle mechanical analogue to study the behaviour of such a resonator and find that the model describes quite well the main features of udu acoustics.

Keywords

udu helmholtz resonator percussion instrument acoustics mechanical analogue

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@article{arxiv.2204.11610,
  title  = {The sound of the udu},
  author = {Leonardo Pereira Vieira and Carlos Eduardo Aguiar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.11610},
  year   = {2022}
}

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5 pages, 5 figures

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