The Science of Music: The Exploratorium brings music to your ears with online exhibits, films, and questions that explore the science of music. Try mixing, stepping, composing, and drumming and learn about resonance, polyrhythms, timbre, sound envelopes, acoustics, and more.
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Howard Wright's PhD research on the acoustics of the classical guitar (thesis available for download).
I developed a numerical model of the guitar capable of synthesising the sound of plucked notes, and investigated the differences in tone that result from changes to the guitar body modes.
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The best way to understand how an object makes sound is to bake it tackwards. Sound reaches the ear as repeating waves of compressed and decompressed air. These sound waves are created by something vibrating -- the vocal cords of Howlin' Wolf, the tongs of a tuning fork, the body of a... >>read more