Handbook of Materials for Wind Musical Instruments
This book addresses key questions about the materials used for the wind instruments of classical symphony orchestra such as flutes, clarinets, saxophones, oboes, bassoons and pipe organs. The content of this book is structured into four parts.Part 1- Desc
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Handbook of Materials for Wind Musical Instruments
Handbook of Materials for Wind Musical Instruments
Voichita Bucur
Handbook of Materials for Wind Musical Instruments
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Voichita Bucur School of Science RMIT University Melbourne, VIC, Australia
ISBN 978-3-030-19174-0 ISBN 978-3-030-19175-7 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19175-7
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This book is dedicated to the memory of Prof. Neville H. Fletcher (1930–2017) eminent Australian physicist, educator and distinguished scholar in musical acoustics
Preface
Handbook of Materials for Wind Musical Instruments follows my previous book published by Springer in 2016 entitled Handbook of Materials for String Musical Instruments. As I explained in the preface of that book, the idea of connecting the science of materials with the characteristics of materials used for musical instruments became a reality following my long conversations in 2011 with Dr. Grahame Smith, who at that time directed the CSIRO—Materials Science Laboratory in Clayton (located near Melbourne, Australia) and where I was Senior Visiting Scientist. At that time, we talked about a very general project comprising three volumes. The first volume related to the materials for string musical instruments, the second volume for wind musical instruments and the third volume for percussion instruments. Because of the span of the subject, we decided to limit the content of these books to the musical instruments used in symphony orchestras. Therefore, the present book on materials for wind musical instruments refers to the following families of instruments: flute, clarinet, oboe, bassoon, saxoph
