Publisher's Synopsis
The second volume of this collection comprises 55 publications in the field of acoustics. It includes the famous "On the Mechanical Theory of Vibration of Bowed Strings" - perhaps the most important contribution to the theory of the violin since Helmholtz - as well as the English translation of Musik instrumen und ihre Klange ( Musical Instruments and Their Tones ) in the Springer Encyclopaedia of Physics .;In addition, there are six papers on the acoustics of Indian musical instruments; the mridangam and tabla being the only percussion instruments in the world to produce harmonic vibrations, and the tanpura and veena which appear to violate the Young-Helmholtz law in their range of harmonic vibrations.;Scientists, scientific institutes, university libraries, technology institutes and libraries, government laboratories and physics research centres.
