Music instruments guidebook

[Hiroko Shiraiwa]

Did you enjoy the Yo Yo Ma concert?
For people, who got interested in musical instruments of the world,
how those instruments can create such wired sounds, the following
reference will provide information. I had Japanese ones, but
here are the original versinos in English. Stanford library and CCRMA
library possibly have copies, too.

<Very illustrative one>
Musical Instruments of the World
by Diagram Group (Editor)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0806998474/qid=1036386387/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-9409511-0095963?v=glance

# this book provides illustrations of nearly thorough collection of
musical instruments, according to classification method of musical
instruments.


<crazily scientific one>
The Physics of Musical Instruments
by Neville H. Fletcher, Thomas D. Rossing
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0387983740/qid=1036386798/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-9409511-0095963?v=glance

# this book covers the acoustic analysis of musical instruments. Most
of the physical details are provided. It also provides a huge range of
carefully selected references.


Enjoy!
Hiroko
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Hiroko Shiraiwa <shiraiwa@stanford.edu>