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A study on the sound investigation of wooden gong rock

Authors :
Myung-Jin Bae
Bong-Young Kim
Source :
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 142:2606-2606
Publication Year :
2017
Publisher :
Acoustical Society of America (ASA), 2017.

Abstract

In Korea, there is a rock with a wooden gong sound. It is the wooden gong rock of Pyochungsa Temple in Miryang, Gyeongsangnam-do, and drum rock of Palgongsan Mountain in Daegu. The wooden gong is one of the Buddhist ceremonial tools that make a sound by knocking an empty tree. In this paper, we will investigate which sound component of wooden gong rock and drum rock as a wooden gong sound through sound analysis. The wooden gong resonates at about 600 Hz when tapped and continues to sound for about 0.1 second. However, most stones and rocks have a sound duration of less than 0.3 seconds without any resonance. Pyochungsa Temple's Wooden gong rock resonates at about 600 Hz and shows a duration of 0.6 to 0.9 seconds, depending on the knocking position and strength. Palgongsan Mountain's Drum rock resonates at about 400 Hz and has a duration of about 0.5 seconds. We conducted a MOS test on 30 people to see how much sound like a wooden sound for each sound. The results were as follows: wooden gong 4.5, wooden g...

Details

ISSN :
00014966
Volume :
142
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Accession number :
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