Acoustic musical instrument with digital strings

An acoustic musical instrument comprising:

• a rigid body;
• a sounding board made of a flexible material and attached to the rigid body;
• at least three actuators each attached to the sounding board at one of at least three user-defined attachment points, the at least three actuators being configured to cause the sounding board to perform oscillations that reproduce a musical sound of interest;
• an input unit configured to receive an input information about the musical sound of interest;
• and
• a processing unit configured to:
• receive the input information from the input unit;
• based on the input information, calculate an amplitude and phase of the oscillations to be performed by the sounding board at each of the at least three user-defined attachment points;
• generate, for each of the at least three actuators, a control signal causing the actuator to exert an excitation force on the sounding board that corresponds to the calculated amplitude and phase of the oscillations at corresponding one of the at least three user-defined attachment points;
• and
• provide the control signals to the at least three actuators.