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Musical mathematics : on the art and science of acoustic instruments / text and illustrations by Cris Forster.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML3805 .F67 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Forster, Cris.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Music--Acoustics and physics.
- Music.
- Musical instruments--Construction.
- Musical instruments.
- Musical intervals and scales.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 926 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco, Calif. : Chronicle Books, [2010]
- Contents:
- Mica mass
- Plain string and wound string calculations
- Flexible strings
- Inharmonic strings
- Piano strings vs. canon strings
- Bars, rods, and tubes
- Acoustic resonators
- Simple flutes
- The geometric progression, logarithms, and cents
- Western tuning theory and practice
- World tunings
- Original instruments
- Building a little canon.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780811874076
- 0811874079
- OCLC:
- 555675811
- Publisher Number:
- 99938788900
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