How does a piano string compare to an ideal physicist’s string? Are there equations that describe the sound a recorder produces? Can the quality of an instrument be quantified? In this episode, we talk to one of the editors of the JASA Special Issue on Modeling of Musical Instruments, Nicholas Giardano, about the wide variety of research efforts regarding analytical and computational techniques to model musical instruments, and how these techniques can help both instrument makers and musicians.
Read the Special Issue on Modeling of Musical Instruments.
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