Acoustics and Vibration Animations.
Dan Russell, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Applied Physics at Kettering University in Flint, MI .
The links contain animations which visualize certain concepts concerning acoustics and vibration. The choice of animations coincides with topics covered in the courses PHYS-382, Acoustics I: Sounds and Sources, and PHYS-482, Acoustics II: Sound and Vibration, which I teach at Kettering University....
Folk music instrument projects inspired by yesterday, made for today's urban folks.
This is a list of ever evolving home brew musical instrument projects. The aim here is to inspire average folk to make and create their own music. You'll find very little instruction here. These projects are intended as starting points for you to build your own personal musical instruments.
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Sitar, Tabla, Tanpura and more Indian instruments from Buckingham Music.
Sitar, tabla, sarode, dilruba, tanpura, harmonium, sitar cases, strings, mezrab, electronic tanpura, swarmandal, video tutorials, teaching books and more... Buckingham Music imports and provides musical instruments and accessories from India as well as creating original writings and on-line tutorials about Indian music and the instruments.
Preface of the book A bow on the couch by Andreas Grütter.
The Chinaman Ein-lei-tung
(about 2,000 BC) in his boundless wisdom, concentrated on one thing only during his entire life, namely his bamboo stick. After 50 years of deepest meditation, Tung, a man of genius, invented the bow, while stretching his bamboo stick with a bundle of horsehair. Even today we still think of him with the greatest respect. Unfortunately the original model, alleged to have had great mythical power, is irretrievably lost, but in spite of this, there are always adventurers who still go in search of the wonderful original ...
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Chuck's Chimes.
How to build and tune tubular wind chimes.
On this page I present what I think is the best information one will find on tubular wind chimes. Many years ago I started searching the web for information to build my own chimes. After finding a little bit of information I tried to build a set of chimes using copper tubing. Mostly they made noise but they sure didn't compare to expensive commercial chimes. A few years later I decided to give it another try. This time I found an equation to help me determine the length of a chime. I had not seen this equation before and being an engineer I set out on my current quest for more knowledge. On this page I present the information needed to make chimes that I think will be as good as or better than any of the expensive commercial chimes....