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Experimenting with brass musical instruments

Michael C LoPresto

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With the aid of microcomputer hardware and software for the introductory physics laboratory, I have developed several experiments dealing with the properties of brass musical instruments that could be used when covering sound anywhere from an introductory physics laboratory to a course in musical acoustics, or even independent studies. The results of these experiments demonstrate in a quantitative fashion the effects of the mouthpiece and bell on the frequencies of the sound waves and thus the musical pitches produced. Most introductory sources only discuss these effects qualitatively.


PACS

43.75.+a Music and musical instruments

01.50.Pa Laboratory experiments and apparatus

07.05.Bx Computer systems: hardware, operating systems, computer languages, and utilities

Subjects

Instrumentation and measurement

Education and communication

Dates

Issue 4 (July 2003)

Received 27 September 2001, in final form 10 March 2003



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