Evaluating musical instruments
Author:
- D. Murray CampbellDCD. Murray Campbell
- 1 April 2014
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Physics Today
- Vol. 67 (4) , 35-40
Abstract
Scientific measurements of sound generation and radiation by musical instruments are surprisingly hard to correlate with the subtle and complex judgments of instrumental quality made by expert musicians.Keywords
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