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Book Description

People have been playing music on homemade instruments for thousands of years. But creating new instruments is much more than an art form. When you want to make a note sound higher or lower, you have to change the sound waves coming out of the instrument. That's science! When you explore the way different materials produce different sounds, that's engineering. When you speed up or slow down a song, you're counting beats -- using math. And technology makes electronic instruments and devices to record and play back music possible.

Table of Contents

  1. Titlepage
  2. Copyright
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Preface: Musical Inventors
  5. The Musical Inventions Supply Closet
  6. Introduction: The Science of Sound and the Art of Inventing Instruments
  7. Chapter 1: Singing Strings and Warbling Winds
    1. Playing Around with Notes
    2. How to Change Notes on a Chordophone
    3. How to Change Notes on an Aerophone
  8. Chapter 2: Bells and Beats
    1. Got Rhythm?
    2. Standing Waves, Overtones, and Harmonics in Idiophones and Membranophones
  9. Chapter 3: Mechanical Music
    1. Shake Things Up with Resonance and Timbre
    2. Music Box Engineering
  10. Chapter 4: Eerie Electronic Music
    1. Where Electronic Music Gets Its Spark
    2. The Buzz about Synthesizers
    3. The Strange and Mysterious Theremin
    4. The Silly Science of Circuit Bending
  11. Chapter 5: Recording and Listening
    1. What Makes Phonographs Go Round
    2. Speaking of Speakers (and Microphones). . .
    3. Tuning into Radios
  12. Afterword: It’s Not Music Until You Make It Musical
  13. Index
  14. About the Author
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