Acoustics
Acoustics
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Ideal Material and shape for clock chime rod. Traditional grandfather clocks produce a mechanical melody by allowing the movement hammer to strike a series of chime rods. What materials are best to produce the loudest and most resonance? What shape of the chime rod is best to product the loudest and most resonance?





RE: Acoustics
RE: Acoustics
The sound volume will largely be a factor of your sounding board.
Some large clocks use tubular chimes.
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RE: Acoustics
However, given that you have an idea of what is needed, you hypothetically can engineer any small group of materials to give the desired performance, assuming that money wasn't an issue.
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