Bart Hopkin - Musical Instrument Design: Practical Information for Instrument Making
Bart Hopkin, editor and founder of Experimental Musical Instruments, a journal dedicated to new and unusual musical instruments, published “Musical Instrument Design: Practical Information for Instrument Making” back in 1996, this is a great book that covers everything from patterns, timbre & overtones, resonance, oscillation, impedance, etc. The book basically explores the world of musical instrument design, it explains how common and new instruments can be made using simple tools, but this book is not a step-by-step guide for making every musical instrument from scratch, it is more about the phisics of sound making, about understanding why musical instruments are built the way they are.
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I’m currently in search of persons who can assist in my building an inovative Performance Vibraphone, I hope your site will assist me in this prosses. I will be purchasing the book…but I’m more interested in how to get an instrument manufacturer to take me seriously… Sincerely, Mr. Majestic