Overview
This book addresses the analysis of musical sounds from the viewpoint of someone at the intersection between physicists, engineers, piano technicians, and musicians. The study is structured into three parts. The reader is introduced to a variety of waves and a variety of ways of presenting, visualizing, and analyzing them in the first part. A tutorial on the tools used throughout the book accompanies this introduction. The mathematics behind the tools is left to the appendices. Part Two provides a graphical survey of the classical areas of acoustics that pertain to musical instruments: vibrating strings, bars, membranes, and plates. Part Three is devoted almost exclusively to the piano. Several two- and three-dimensional graphical tools are introduced to study various characteristics of pianos: individual notes and interactions among them, the missing fundamental, inharmonicity, tuning visualization, the different distribution of harmonic power for the various zones of the piano keyboard, and potential uses for quality control. These techniques are also briefly applied to other musical instruments studied in earlier parts of the book.For physicists and engineers there are appendices to cover the mathematics lurking beneath the numerous graphs and a brief introduction to Matlab® which was used to generate these graphs. A website accompanying the book (https://sites.google.com/site/analysisofsoundsandvibrations/) contains:- Matlab® scripts- mp3 files of sounds- references to YouTube videos - and up-to-date results of recent studies
Full Product Details
Author: David M. Koenig (Engineering Associate (Retired), Engineering Associate (Retired), Corning, Inc.) ,
Delwin D. Fandrich (Piano Research, Design & Manufacturing Consultant, Piano Research, Design & Manufacturing Consultant, Fandrich Piano Company)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 18.10cm
, Height: 2.40cm
, Length: 24.90cm
Weight: 0.910kg
ISBN: 9780198722908
ISBN 10: 0198722907
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 13 November 2014
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
I recommend this remarkable book to everyone who wants to know how sounds are generated and how they can be analyzed. I am sure that this book will serve as a standard reference for the spectral analysis of musical sounds over many years * Haye Hinrichsen, Euro Piano *
I recommend this remarkable book to everyone who wants to know how sounds are generated and how they can be analyzed. I am sure that this book will serve as a standard reference for the spectral analysis of musical sounds over many years Haye Hinrichsen, Euro Piano
Author Information
David M. Koenig was born in Columbus, Ohio and lived in the nearby town of Grove City until age 17. He attended Bates College and the University of Chicago where he graduated with a B.S. in Chemistry. After obtaining a M.S. in Chemical Engineering at the University of Connecticut he received a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from The Ohio State University. He worked at Corning, Inc. for 27 years in the area of process control and analysis and wrote a book on that subject in 1991. After retirement he wrote a book on process control and then got interested in applying the analysis tools to the piano which led to this book. Delwin D. Fandrich is Piano Research, Design and Manufacturing Consultant at Fandrich Piano Company.
