Mechanics of Playing and Making Musical Instruments
Invited Lecturers
- Anders Askenfelt (Royal Institute of Technology , Stockholm, Sweden)
5 lectures on: the history of the mechanical design of the piano (keyboard, hammers, strings, structure) with some musical implications, coupling between hammers, strings and soundboard and their consequences for tuning and piano manufacture.
- Xavier Boutillon (Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau Cedex, France)
5 lectures on: Bow-string interactions, the dynamics of bows and bowing control parameters, transient sounds in bowed strings, special regimes, modal analysis and radiation of the violin.
- Murray Campbell (University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Great Britain)
5 lectures on: The trombone and related brass instruments, acoustics-based classification, coupling between buzzing lips and resonating air columns, optimising brass instruments, non-linear effects in trombone playing, the significance of materials of construction.
- Benoit Fabre (Labor. d'Acoustique Musicale, Paris, France)
5 lectures on: Sound production in flutes, parameters under the control of makers and players and the necessary compromises between them, acoustical response to the musical needs and the evolutions of sound aesthetic, and acoustical analysis of flutes from the world.
- Joël Gilbert (Université du Maine, Le Mans Cedex 9, France)
5 lectures on: the clarinet and related reed instruments, coupling of reed and resonator, factors determining the playing range and the dynamic range of the clarinet, calculation and optimization of tone holes, vocal-tract influence.
- Bernard Richardson (Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, Great Britain)
5 lectures on: The guitar and the player, spectral characteristics of guitar tones, modes of vibration and radiation fields of guitars and their manipulation, materials and construction of stringed instruments, novel approaches to lutherie.