In this research, we examined the acoustic properties of hand-made wooden pipes made from several tree species (spruce, pine, linden, walnut, maple, beech, oak, birch, pear, cherry, American walnut, hornbeam, elm, black locust). The acoustic properties of the pipes were studied based on the frequency response at transverse vibration, while the sound vibration was studied in the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd modes of the open tube. The maximum average sound pressure was determined in a tubular resonator made of black locust, spruce, and pine wood. The sound pressure in the tubular resonator was higher when the resonator was made of wood with a higher stiffness to weight ratio and better acoustic conversion efficiency (ACE). The vibration (resonance) of the tube resonator walls increased with the intensity of the sound vibration in the pipe. The resonance of spruce wood was the highest, where we measured the highest stiffness to weight ratio. The sound vibration sustained in the resonator was also significantly influenced by the damping properties of the wood in the wall of the tubular resonator. The sound sustain was longer when wood with lower vibration damping properties was used.
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