Musical Instrument Design
Subtitle: Practical Information for Instrument Making
Contributors: John Scoville (Introduction)
Publisher: See Sharp Press
Published: January 28, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 181
ISBN-13: 9781884365089
Subjects: Musical instruments & instrumental ensembles; Musical Instruments - General; Musical Instruments - Construction And Repair; Music/Songbooks; Music; Musical instruments; Music / Reference; Construction; Acoustics and physics
First sentence: "In order to think intelligently about sound production, we need to understand certain things about how the ears and brain make sense of the sounds that reach them."
Description: An encyclopedic, large-format book containing hundreds of illustrations, Musical Instrument Design provides all the information that anyone (amateur or professional) should ever need to construct an amazingly wide variety of percussion, string, and wind instruments. Includes many designs for instruments along with parts lists and detailed construction instructions [Publisher description].