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By David M. Koenig

This ebook addresses the research of musical sounds from the perspective of somebody on the intersection among physicists, engineers, piano technicians, and musicians.

The learn is based into 3 elements. The reader is brought to a number of waves and a number of methods of featuring, visualizing, and interpreting them within the first half. an educational at the instruments used through the e-book accompanies this advent. the math at the back of the instruments is left to the appendices. half offers a graphical survey of the classical components of acoustics that pertain to musical tools: vibrating strings, bars, membranes, and plates. half 3 is devoted
almost completely to the piano. numerous - and 3-dimensional graphical instruments are brought to check quite a few features of pianos: person notes and interactions between them, the lacking primary, inharmonicity, tuning visualization, the several distribution of harmonic strength for the
various zones of the piano keyboard, and strength makes use of for qc. those suggestions also are in brief utilized to different musical tools studied in prior components of the book.

For physicists and engineers there are appendices to hide the math lurking underneath the various graphs and a quick creation to Matlab® which was once used to generate those graphs. an internet site accompanying the e-book (https://sites.google.com/site/analysisofsoundsandvibrations/) contains:
- Matlab® scripts
- mp3 documents of sounds
- references to YouTube videos
- and up to date result of fresh studies

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