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Index
Cover
Titlepage
Copyright
Acknowledgments
Preface: Musical Inventors
The Musical Inventions Supply Closet
Introduction: The Science of Sound and the Art of Inventing Instruments
What Is Sound?
What Is Music?
The Science of Sound and Music
Meet the Instrument Families
Chapter 1: Singing Strings and Warbling Winds
Playing Around with Notes
How to Change Notes on a Chordophone
How to Change Notes on an Aerophone
Chapter 2: Bells and Beats
Got Rhythm?
Standing Waves, Overtones, and Harmonics in Idiophones and Membranophones
Chapter 3: Mechanical Music
Shake Things Up with Resonance and Timbre
Music Box Engineering
Chapter 4: Eerie Electronic Music
Where Electronic Music Gets Its Spark
The Buzz about Synthesizers
The Strange and Mysterious Theremin
The Silly Science of Circuit Bending
Chapter 5: Recording and Listening
What Makes Phonographs Go Round
Speaking of Speakers (and Microphones). . .
Tuning into Radios
Afterword: It’s Not Music Until You Make It Musical
Index
About the Author
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