G. Björk,1 H. de Guise,2 A. B. Klimov,3 P. de la Hoz,4 and L. L. Sánchez-Soto4 1Department of Applied Physics, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), AlbaNova University Center, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden 2Department of Physics, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada P7B 5E1 3Departamento de Fı́sica, Universidad de Guadalajara, 44420 Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico 4Departamento de Óptica...

Vascular Medicine Unit, School of Life and Health Sciences, Aston University, Aston Triangle, Birmingham, England; Gustav Born Centre for Vascular Biology, BHF Centre for Cardiovascular Science, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom; Dept of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Hospital Clinic-IDIBAPS, University of Barcelona, Spain; Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada; Dept of O...

Large vibrating plates are used as thunder sheets in orchestras. We have extended the use of flat plates by cementing a flat panel electroacoustic transducer on a large brass sheet. Because of the thickness of the panel, the output is subject to nonlinear distortion. When combined with a real-time input and signal processing algorithm, the active brass plate can become an effective musical inst...