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Abstract

This chapter provides an introduction to the physical and psycho-acoustic principles underlying the production and perception of the sounds of musical instruments. The first section introduces generic aspects of musical acoustics and the perception of musical sounds, followed by separate sections on string, wind and percussion instruments.

In all sections, we start by considering the vibrations of simple systems – like stretched strings, simple air columns, stretched membranes, thin plates and shells. We show that, for almost all musical instruments, the usual text-book description of such systems is strongly perturbed by material properties, geometrical factors and acoustical coupling between the drive mechanism, vibrating system and radiated sound.

For stringed, woodwind and brass instruments, we discuss excitation by the bow, reed and vibrating lips, which all involve strongly non-linear processes, even though the vibrations of the excited system usually remains well within the linear regime. However, the amplitudes of vibration of very strongly excited strings, air columns, thin plates and membranes can sometimes exceed the linear approximation limit, resulting in a number of interesting non-linear phenomena, often of significant musical importance.

Musical acoustics therefore provides an excellent introduction to the physics of both linear and non-linear acoustical systems, in a context of rather general interest to professional acousticians, teachers and students, at both school and college levels.

The subject continues its long tradition in advancing the frontiers of experimental, computational and theoretical acoustics, in an area of wide general appeal and contemporary relevance.

By discussing the theoretical models and experimental methods used to investigate the acoustics of many musical instruments, we have aimed to provide a useful background for professional acousticians, students and their teachers, for whom musical acoustics provides an exceedingly rich area for original research projects at all educational levels.

Because the subject is ultimately about the sounds produced by musical instruments, a large number of audio illustrations have been provided, which can be accessed on the Springer EXTRAS server. The extensive list of references is intended as a useful starting point for entry to the current research literature, but makes no attempt to provide a comprehensive list of all important research.

This chapter highlights the acoustics of musical instruments. Other related topics, such as the human voice, the perception and psychology of sound, architectural acoustics, sound recording and reproduction, and many experimental, computational and analytic techniques are described in more detail elsewhere in this volume.

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Abbreviations

2-D:

two-dimensional

3-D:

three-dimensional

ADC:

analog-to-digital converter

BH:

Bridge-Hill

FEA:

finite-element analysis

FFT:

fast Fourier transform

HI-FI:

high fidelity

PC:

personal computer

PIV:

particle image velocimetry

SPL:

sound pressure level

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