Musical Instrument Design · Practical Information for Instrument Design by Hopkin, Bart -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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COVER COPYRIGHT ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION PREFACE Chapter One MUSICAL SOUND PERCEPTION

SOME BASICS TIMBRE AND OVERTONES ATTACK AND DECAY; DIRECTIONAL EFFECTS

Chapter Two ACOUSTIC PRINCIPLES

BASIC PRINCIPLES OF OSCILLATION RESONANCE DAMPING AND RADIATION MODES OF VIBRATION NODES AND ANTINODES: Practical Applications PHASE RELATIONSHIPS IMPEDANCE, TRANSMISSION AND RADIATION

Chapter Three TUNING SYSTEMS AND PITCH LAYOUTS

TUNINGS PITCH LAYOUTS, GESTURE, & ERGONOMICS

Chapter Four IDIOPHONES

FREE-BAR INSTRUMENTS: MARIMBAS, CHIMES, AND THEIR RELATIVES RODS FIXED AT ONE END: KALIMBAS, TONGUE DRUMS AND OTHERS TUNING FORKS BELLS, CYMBALS AND GONGS SAWS AND WOBBLEBOARDS INSTRUMENTS WITH IRREGULAR VIBRATION PATTERNS

Chapter Five BEATERS, SCRAPERS, & FRICTION MAKERS

MALLETS AND STICKS FRICTION DEVICES SCRAPERS MOUNTING SYSTEMS

Chapter Six AEROPHONES

EXCITING THE VIBRATION AIR COLUMNS AND CHAMBERS MATERIALS FOR WIND INSTRUMENT TUBES AND VESSELS PITCH CONTROL FOR WIND INSTRUMENTS PLOSIVE AEROPHONES SIRENS OUTER AIR INSTRUMENTS

Chapter Seven MEMBRANOPHONES

DRUMHEADS DRUM BODIES ATTACHING THE HEAD DRUM TUNING DRUM MOUNTINGS & DRUM POSITIONING MORE DRUM TYPES, SOUNDING METHODS, ACCESSORIES, ETC.

Chapter Eight RESONATORS AND RADIATORS

Chapter Nine CHORDOPHONES

STRING INSTRUMENT FORMS BASICS OF STRING VIBRATION and STRING SCALING SOUNDING THE STRING STRING TENSIONING MECHANISMS BRIDGES PITCH CONTROL MECHANISMS FOR CHORDOPHONES: MULTIPLE STRINGS MORE PITCH CONTROL MECHANISMS: STRING LENGTH & TENSION TUNINGS AND STRING LAYOUTS UNORTHODOXIES

Chapter Ten SPECIAL EFFECTS

CHORUSING AND BEATING EFFECTS REVERBERATION & SYMPATHETIC VIBRATION SHIFTING RESONANCE EFFECTS RATTLES MIRLITONS DAMPERS MOVING SOUND SOURCES AND DIRECTIONAL EFFECTS

Chapter Eleven A FEW MORE THOUGHTS Appendix One TOOLS AND MATERIALS Appendix Two FREQUENCY AND TUNINGS CHARTS Appendix Three AMPLIFICATION, MICROPHONES AND TRANSDUCERS Appendix Four MORE ON AIR COLUMNS, TONEHOLES AND WOODWIND KEYING MECHANISMS GLOSSARY BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX BACK COVER