Format:
1 Online-Ressource (X, 247p. 140 illus)
ISBN:
9781461225027
,
9780387943367
Note:
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 performance; several excellent books have treated the acoustics of musical instruments in a semiquantitative way; but none to our knowledge had then attempted 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 oscillators. 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
Language:
English
Keywords:
Mechanische Schwingung
;
Akustik
;
Technische Akustik
;
Klang
DOI:
10.1007/978-1-4612-2502-7
