Musical instrument design : practical information for instrument making
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Tucson :
See Sharp Press,
c1996.
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction / Jon Scoville
- Preface
- Musical sound perception
- Acoustic principles
- Tuning systems and pitch layouts
- Idiophones
- Beaters, scrapers, friction makers
- Aerophones
- Membranophones
- Resonators and radiators
- Chordophones
- Special effects
- A few more thoughts
- Appendix 1. Tools and materials
- Appendix 2. Frequency and tuning charts
- Appendix 3. Amplification
- Appendix 4. More on air columns, toneholes and woodwind keying mechanisms