Musical Acoustics - Some Introductory Pages

Some of the pages listed below were written to answer non-specialist questions about music acoustics and to act as an introduction to our research pages, or to describe other introductory material. The research pages also have introductions to the acoustics of the particular instruments studied. There is also a non-specialist Frequently Asked Questions in music acoustics on this site.

General topics

String topics

Woodwind topics

Brass topics and lip-reed topics

Percussion topics

  • For now, the only page we have on percussion is about the acoustics of bell plates. However, this introduces some of the main points applicable to vibrating bars and plates.

Voice topics

Related topics

Related publications

Other links

 

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