Overview
- Updated and expanded second edition of a best-selling title
- The essential reference on the topic
- Presents the results of the latest acoustical investigations
- A comprehensive reference for those undertaking research
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Table of contents (22 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Sound Waves
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Front Matter
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String Instruments
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Front Matter
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Wind Instruments
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Front Matter
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About this book
When we wrote the first edition of this book, we directed our presenta tion to the reader with a compelling interest in musical instruments who has "a reasonable grasp of physics and who is not frightened by a little mathematics." We are delighted to find how many such people there are. The opportunity afforded by the preparation of this second edition has allowed us to bring our discussion up to date by including those new insights that have arisen from the work of many dedicated researchers over the past decade. We have also taken the opportunity to revise our presentation of some aspects of the subject to make it more general and, we hope, more immediately accessible. We have, of course, corrected any errors that have come to our attention, and we express our thanks to those friends who pointed out such defects in the early printings of the first edition. We hope that this book will continue to serve as a guide, both to those undertaking research in the field and to those who simply have a deep interest in the subject. June 1991 N.H.F and T.D.R.
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"Essentially everything you have ever wanted to know about the physics of musical instruments" PHYSICS TODAY
"a rigor, graphical detail, and verbal description." AUDIO
"a rigor, graphical detail, and verbal description." AUDIO
Authors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Physics of Musical Instruments
Authors: Neville H. Fletcher, Thomas D. Rossing
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-21603-4
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York 1998
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-98374-5Published: 19 June 1998
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-3120-7Published: 01 December 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-21603-4Published: 09 November 2013
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XX, 756