Making Guitars with a Physics Mind By Curtin University

Making Guitars with a Physics Mind By Curtin University
Watch as Curtin's Dominic Howman presents a lecture on how musical instruments produce sound. Out of curiosity and the need to make improvements, scientific studies have sought to discover systematic ways of making desired changes to sound production. However, some types of musical instruments are much more difficult to understand than others. For example, the way violins work has been known for some time, but some of the basics of the acoustic guitar continue to remain as elusive as the fine subtleties of a Stradivarius. This lecture was presented on 23 March 2011.