Klarinet Archive - Posting 000094.txt from 1996/05

From: Jonathan Cohler <cohler@-----.NET>
Subj: Re: Why overblow at a twelfth
Date: Mon, 6 May 1996 03:46:27 -0400

At 12:13 AM 5/6/96, Bruce Currie wrote:
>My acoustics books from grad school include (these are hard-cover,
>text-book size):
>
>"The Acoustical Foundations of Music", second edition, by John
>Backus (c.1977); W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.; $10.95 in 1978.
>
>"Fundamentals of Musical Acoustics" by Arthur H. Benade (c.1976);
>Oxford University Press; $14 in 1978.
>
>Both are by physicists with a serious interest in music. Any newer
>editions?
>

Yes. The Benade book was published again with many corrections in 1990 by
Dover in a paperback edition.

Don't know about the Backus.

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Jonathan Cohler
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