The piano-soundboard object is based on measurements of a real piano made by Philippe Derogis for his PhD thesis at IRCAM.
The geometrical characteristics of a piano soundboard include:
This object is in the form of fixed modal data, and must be created using the Read from File object (choosing one of two available piano soundboard models):
(make-object 'read-from-file "/mos/mod-anal/piano-soundboard.dat")
or:
(make-object 'read-from-file "/mos/mod-anal/piano-soundboard2.dat")
Both the piano-soundboard and piano-soundboard2 objects were created from measurements of actual piano soundboards. Therefore, it is impossible to modify their physical parameters.
A piano-soundboard object is seen by Modalys as a specific type of rectangular plate. Therefore, accesses on a piano-soundboard object must be defined in the 'normal direction:
(make-access my-sndbrd my-2D-controller 'normal)
There are no special options for this object.
See example ex2-piano-soundboard.mos (struck string attached to the soundboard) and ex2-piano-soundboard-2.mos (two struck strings attached to the soundboard and tuned very close to each other) for further details.