Studies in Musical Acoustics and Psychoacoustics

Introduction.- Japanese Flutes and their musical acoustic peculiarities.- Acoustics of the Qin.- Tone Production of the Wurlitzer and Rhodes E-Pianos.- Feedback of Different Room Geometries on the Sound Generation and Sound Radiation of an Organ Pipe.- Acoustical Modeling of Mutes for Brass Instruments.- Comparison of Vocal and Violin Vibrato with Relationship to the Source/Filter Model.- Vowel Quality in Violin Sounds - a Timbre Analysis of Italian Masterpieces.- Sound, Pitches and Tuning of a Historic Carillon.- Source Width in Music Production. Methods in Stereo, Ambisonics, and Wave Field Synthesis.- Methods in Neuromusicology: Principles, Trends, Examples and the pros and cons.- An intelligent music system to perform different "shapes of jazz - to come.- Explorations in Keyboard Temperaments. Some Empirical Observations.