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Principles of Vibration and Sound (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1995)
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Principles of Vibration and Sound (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1995)
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Some years ago we set out to write a detailed book about the basic
physics of musical instruments. There have been many admirable
books published about the history of the development of musical
instruments, about their construction as a master craft, and about
their employment in musical perfor mance; several excellent books
have treated the acoustics of musical instru ments in a
semiquantitative way; but none to our knowledge had then at tempted
to assemble the hard acoustic information available in the research
literature and to make it available to a wider readership. Our book
The Physics of Musical Instruments, published by Springer-Verlag in
1991 and subsequently reprinted several times with only minor
corrections, was the outcome of our labor. Because it was our aim
to make our discussion of musical instruments as complete and
rigorous as possible, our book began with a careful introduction to
vibrating and radiating systems important in that field. We treated
simple linear oscillators, both in isolation and coupled together,
and extended that to a discussion of some aspects of driven and
autonomous nonlinear oscilla tors. Because musical instruments are
necessarily extended structures, we then went on to discuss the
vibrations of strings, bars, membranes, plates, and shells, paying
particular attention to the mode structures and characteristic
frequencies, for it is these that are musically important."
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