Encyclopaedia of Musical Science and Technology

Organology, Musical Acoustics and Musical Instrument Making

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Encyclopaedia Contents

Acoustics

Physical acoustics
- Oscillation & Waves
- Spectrum & Fourier transformation
- Sounds
Musical acoustics
- General
- Strings
- Air Columns
- Sticks
- Plates
- Membranes
- Boxes
Human voice
- Speech
- Singing
Psychoacoustics
- Physiology
- Psychoacoustics
Soundscape design
Architectural
Noise
Electroacoustics
Acoustical engineering

Music Theory

Notation
Music Fundamentals
- Melody
- Pitch
- Rhythm
- Harmony
- Scales and Modes
- Texture
- Allocation
- Timbre
- Dynamics
- Articulation
- Form or Structure
- Consonance and Dissonance
Music subjects
- Mathematics
- Temperaments
- Analysis
- Ear training
Harmonization
- Four-part writing
- Music perception and cognition
- Serial composition and set theory
- Musical semiotics
Music Styles

Workshop Practice

Safety Manual
Woodworking
- General techniques
  - Joints
  - Bending
  - Decoration
  - Varnishing
- For Stringed
- For Flutes
Metalworking
- Heat Treatments
Jigs, Tools & Machinery
- Hand Tools
- Power Tools
- Jigs & Fixtures
- CAD/CAM
Instrument making
Painting & Decorating

Materials

Vegetables
- Woods
  - Quartersawn Wood
  - Cork
  - Cane
- Wood Derivates
  - Plywood
Animals
Metals & Minerals
Plastics
Chemicals

Instruments

About Instruments
Aerophones
- With keyboard
  - Organ
  - Portative Organ
- Woodwinds
  - Cornetto
  - Dolzaina
  - Flute
  - Gemshorn
  - Pífano
  - Recorder
- Reeds
  - Acordeon
  - Bagpipes
  - Baroque Bassoon
  - Cornamusen
  - Curtal
  - Crumhorn
  - Dulcian
  - Fagot
  - Glastonbury Pipe
  - Rackett
  - Rauschpfeife
  - Shawm
  - Sordune
- Brasswinds
  - Trumpet
Chordophones
- With keyboard
  - Cembalino
  - Clavichord
  - Harpsichord
  - Hurdy-Gurdy
  - Piano
  - Spinet
  - Symphony
- Bowed
  - Bowed Psaltery
  - Cello
  - Double bass
  - Fiddle
  - Rebec
  - Viol
  - Violin
- Plucked and Hammered
  - Appalachian Dulcimer
  - Bouzouki
  - Cítara
  - Citole
  - Cittern
  - Guitar
  - Guittern
  - Hammered Dulcimer
  - Harp
  - Lute
  - Lyre
  - Mandolin
  - Plucked Psaltery
  - Ukelele
- Struck
  - Hammered Dulcimer
Electrophones
- Theremin
Idiophones
- Limberjack
- Sanza
Membranophones
- Bodhran
- Drum
- Nakers
- Tabor
- Taboret
- Timbrel
- Timpani

Appendices

Matematics
- Geometry
- Trigonometry
Physics
- Measurement
- Solid Mechanics
- Fluid Mechanics
Chemistry
Vocabulary

Resources

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Questions

References and Suggestions for Further Reading

When trying to design or build musical instruments, some of the handicaps come from the scarcity of appropriate information.
We try to maintain the technical articles of the Encyclopaedia free of commercial information, that's why we have created this separate section for a list of information sourcing for musical instrument building.
This is not a comprehensive list. Only those which provide with hard-to-find or specific materials for lutherie are included. If you miss anyone, please let us know. Many thanks.

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Acoustics Departments

The following departments have performed or are devoted to investigations related with the acoustics of musical instruments.

ACEL	Acoustics and Electronics Research Group of the University of Naples	Italia	http://www.na.infn.it/mfa/acust/
ACROE	Institute d’Informatique et de Matematiques Apliques de Grenoble	Francia	http://www.imag.fr/
AGON	Acustica Informatica Musica	Italia	http://www.agonarsmagnetica.it/
ASA	Acoustical Society of America		http://asa.aip.org
CART Lab	Computer Music Department of CNUCE/C.N.R. Pisa	Italia	http://www.cnuce.pi.cnr.it/tarabella/cART.html
CCRMA	Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics. Stanford University.	Estados Unidos	http://www-ccrma.stanford.edu/
CCS	Center of Computational Sonology of the University of Padova	Italia	http://www.dei.unipd.it/english/csc/index.html
CNMAT	Center for New Music and Audio Technologies. Berkeley University	Estados Unidos	http://www.cnmat.berkeley.edu/
CRM	Centro Ricerche Musicali. Roma	Italia	http://www.axnet.it/crm/index.html
DMRG	Digital Music Research Group, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Bristol	Reino Unido	http://www.een.bris.ac.uk/Research/CCR/dmr/index.html
EAA	European Acoustics Association		http://www.eaa-fenestra.org/
EMI	Experimental musical instruments		http://www.windworld.com/emi/
FIA	Federación Iberoamericana de Acústica		http://www.fia.ufsc.br
GRAME	Centre National de Création Musicale. Lyon	Francia	http://www.grame.fr/
ICA	International Commission of Acoustics		http://ims-ism.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/ica/
IIAV	International Institute of Acoustics and Vibration		http://www.iiav.org
I-INCE	International Institute of Noise Control Engineering		http://www.i-ince.org/
INA-GRM	Groupe de Recherches Musicales	Francia	http://www.ina.fr/grm/index.fr.html
INFOMUS	Laboratorio di Informatica Musicale of the University of Genova	Italia	http://musart.dist.unige.it/
INSIA	INSIA-Instituto Universitario de Investigación del Automóvil. E.T.S.I. Industriales-Universidad Politécnica de Madrid	España	http://www.insia.upm.es/
IRCAM	Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique)	Francia	http://www.ircam.fr/
ITEMM	Institut Technologique Européen des Métiers de la Musique. Le Mans	Francia	http://www.itemm.fr/htm/presentation/presenta.htm
KTH	KTH Music Acoustic Group. Department of Speech, Music and Hearing, KTH Royal Institute of Technology	Suecia	http://www.speech.kth.se/music/
LAASP	Laboratory of Acoustics and Audio Signal Processing. Helsinki University of Technology	Finlandia	http://www.acoustics.hut.fi/
LAM	Laboratoire d'Acoustique Musicale - Paris VI	Francia	http://www.lam.jussieu.fr/
LAUM	Laboratoire d'Acoustique de l'Université du Maine	Francia	http://laum.univ-lemans.fr/index1.htm
MTG	Grupo de Tecnología Musical. Universidad Pompeu Fabra	España	http://www.iua.upf.es/mtg/
MTRC	Media Technology Research Center of the University of Bath	Reino Unido	http://www.bath.ac.uk/Centres/MEDIA/
MUSTECH	Music Technology Group of the York University	Reino Unido	http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/mustech/welcome.html
S.E.A.	Sociedad Acústica Española		http://www.ia.csic.es/Sea/index.html
SFA	Société Française d'Acoustique		http://www.sfa.asso.fr/
TSML	The Telecommunications Software and Multimedia Laboratory. Helsinki University of Technology	Finlandia	http://www.tml.hut.fi/english.html
ZKM-IZKM	Institut für Musik und Akustik. Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe. Alemania		http://on1.zkm.de/zkm/e/institute/musik/

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