Mechanics of Playing and Making Musical Instruments
Suggested readings
The Physics of Musical Instruments, Fletcher and Rossing (Springer).
Fundamentals of Acoustics, L.E. Kinsler et al. (Wiley, 1999).
Musician’s guide to acoustics, D.M. Campbell and C. Greated (Oxford University Press).
Mechanics of Musical Instruments, Hirschberg et al. (Springer 1995) (for advanced readers).
Acoustics and Performance of Music, J. Meyer (tr. Bowsher, 1979), from Akustik und musikalische Aufführungspraxis (Bochinsky).
The Acoustics of the Piano, A. Askenfelt Ed. (Royal Swedish Academy of Music, No 64, Stockholm 1990).
Introduction to the Physics and Psychophysics of Music, J.G. Roederer (Springer 1980), also in German: Physikalische und psychoakustische Grundlagen der Musik.
The Musical Mind: The Cognitive Psychology of Music. J.A. Sloboda (Oxford University Press, 1985), also in French: L’esprit musicien, la psychologie cognitive de la musique (Pierre Mardaga Editeur).