These makers are knowledgeable, skilled and inventive individuals - and terribly generous too, every one of them. Others I have picked up in my extensive contacts with other instrument makers, and through familiarity with their instruments and writings. Many are common currency, having been part of musical instrument building practice for years and years. Most of the ideas in this book are not my own. Interior typeset in Times Roman, Futura, and Arial. Interior design and illustrations by Bart Hopkin. Photo of Glass Marimba by Serge Gubelman photo of Gourd Drums by Bart Hopkin photo of Bull Kelp Horn by Janet Hopkin. 784.1922 First printing - June 1996 Second printing - June 1998 Third printing - August 2000 Fourth printing - September 2003 Fifth printing - February 2005 Sixth printing - February 2007 Back cover instruments: Glass Marimba by Michael Meadows Gourd Drums by Darrel DeVore Five-Bell Bull Kelp Horn by Bart Hopkin.
Music Instruments - Design and construction. music 28 cm Includes bibliographical references (p. Musical Instrument Design / by Bart Hopkin with an introduction by Jon Scoville. Box 1731, Tucson, AZ 85702-1731 or contact us via our web site: Hopkin, Bart. For information contact See Sharp Press, P.O. In music education from San Francisco State University.Ī professional guitarist, he has taught, written, composed, performed and recorded in many places, including Kingston, Jamaica, where for several years he researched and wrote on Jamaican childrens songs and revival church music.Copyright © 1996 by Bart Hopkin. Magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1974, and later received a B.A.
Most valuable are appendices dealing with frequency and wavelength relationships, a tuning chart and information on formulas used in the process of woodwind production as well as an extensive bibliography.ĬM-7 Bart Hopkin was founder and editor of Experimental Musical Instruments, a quarterly journal dedicated to new and unusual musical instruments, since its inception in1985.
It also discusses types of mouthpieces and bells, Helmholtz Resonators and toneholes for cylindrical, conical and globular instruments.
Get your Kindle here, or download a FREE Kindle Reading App.Īside from chapters on the mechanics of oscillating air chambers and the effects of bore shapes on resonance and tone quality, it outlines several approaches that can be taken in the task of making a flute. Air Columns And Tone Holes Pdf Download A FREE
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