links - acoustics & perception
Acoustics of brass instruments (lip reeds): an introduction
University of New South Wales.
Acoustics and Vibration Animations
Several animations which visualize certain concepts concerning acoustics and vibration, by Dan Russell, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Applied Physics at Kettering University in Flint, MI
Audition: Cognitive Psychology of Music
by Stephen McAdams
Auditory Scene Analysis: The Perceptual Organization of Sound
by Albert S. Bregman
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Clarinet Acoustics
A site dedicated to understanding the clarinet, University of New South Wales.
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Deutsch's Musical Illusions
by Diana Deutsch
Didgeridoo acoustics/ yidaki acoustics
University of New South Wales.
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Five Lectures on the Acoustics of the piano
by A. Askenfelt
Flute Acoustics
A site dedicated to understanding the flute, University of New South Wales.
The Virtual Flute
(Predict notes and multiphonics, alternate fingering, trill or microtone, search for a multiphonic fingering)
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Guitar Acoustics
University of New South Wales.
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Illusions and Paradoxes, Seeing is Believing?
This page illustrates that our visual perception cannot always be trusted.
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Knowledge in perception and illusion
(pdf link)
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Morphologie et acoustique du piano
René Caussé
Mouthpieces and bells
What is a forced harmonic sequence and what effects do the mouthpiece and bell really have?
Musical Calculator Software (+ handbook as PDF-file)
The Musical Calculator is a usefull plug-in, programmed by Werner Winkler, Institut für Wiener Klangstil (Musikalische Akustik). Its features include: transposition (all clefs) graphic represantation of notes relation between frequency, temperature and wavelength.
Musical Instruments:
Applications of musical acoustics
Information about orchestral instruments
Musical Instruments; Their Differences and Similarities Found Using Physics
R. Tilghman, J. Ogulnik, N. Aglikin and K. Tamura
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The Physics of Musical Instruments
Internet Links
Physics in Speech
An introduction to some of the physics in speech (including some notes about helium speech) by Joe Wolfe
Psychoacoustics and Cognitive Psychology (Past)
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Saxophone acoustics: an introduction
University of New South Wales
Schilke Brass Clinic
The Physics of Inner Brass and the Acoustical Effects of Various Materials and Their Treatment, by Renold O. Schilke
The Shepard Scale, the Tritone Paradox and the Risset Scale
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Vanishing illusion
an interestong link
Violin Acoustics
University of New South Wales
Vocal Tract Acoustics
by Joe Wolfe
Virtual Acoustic Musical Instruments: Review of Models and Selected Research
Julius O. Smith (CCRMA), Department of Music, Stanford University