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Dr. George Bissinger


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Dr. George Bissinger

  • Professor Emeritus    
  • Fellow, Acoustical Society of America
  • Ph. D., University of Notre Dame, 1969
  • Office Location: Austin 118
  • Telephone: (252) 328-1860
  • Email: bissingerg@ecu.edu


 

Research Interest:

Strad 3D VIOCADEAS Project - Comprehensive mode characterization of violin's in- and out-of-plane vibrational properties correlated with acoustical and qualitative evaluations (including Stradivari and Guarneri del Gesu violins, to develop relations to construction, material density, elastic moduli and damping.

 


Publications:

 “Structural acoustics model of the violin radiativity profile”, G. Bissinger, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 124, 4013-4023 (2008).

 “Structural acoustics of good and bad violins”, G. Bissinger, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 124, 1764-1773 (2008).

"Surprising regularity between plate modes 2 and 5 and the B1 corpus modes,": Part I”, G. Bissinger,  Violin Soc. Am.: VSA Papers 21, 83-101 (2007).

 “Violin f-hole contribution to far-field radiation via patch near-field acoustical holography”, G. Bissinger, E.G. Williams, N. Valdivia, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 121, 3899-3906 (2007).

“The Violin Bridge as Filter”, G. Bissinger, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 120, 482-491 (2006)

“A Unified Materials-Normal Mode Approach To Violin Acoustics”, G. Bissinger, Acustica, 91, 214-228 (2005)

“Contemporary generalized normal mode violin acoustics”, G. Bissinger, Acustica, 90, 590-599 (2004)

“The role of radiation damping in violin sound”, G. Bissinger, Acoust. Res. Lett. Online, 5, 82-87 (2004). http://ojps.aip.org/ARLO

“I.  Relating normal mode properties of violins to overall quality – signature modes”, G. Bissinger, CAS Journal, 4 (series II), 37-45 (2003)

"II.  Relating normal mode properties of violins to overall quality – general trends”,  G. Bissinger, CAS Journal 4 (series II), 46-52 (2003)

“Generalized Normal Mode Violin Acoustics”, G. Bissinger, Proc Stockholm Mus. Acoust. Conf. 2003, 35-38 (2003)

“Modal analysis of a violin octet”, G. Bissinger, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 113, 2105-2113 (2003)

"Wall compliance and violin cavity modes", G. Bissinger, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 113, 1718-1723 (2003).

"Radiation damping, efficiency and directivity for violin normal modes below 4 kHz", G. Bissinger and J. Keiffer, Acoust. Res. Lett. Online, 4, no.1, 7-12 (2003)

"Modern vibration measurement techniques for bowed string instruments", G. Bissinger, Exp. Techniq. 25(no.4), 43-46 (2001).