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SUMMARY:Acoustics of musical instruments - why is a saxophone like a violi
 n? - Professor Jim Woodhouse ( CUED)
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CONTACT:Beverley Larner
DESCRIPTION:Musical instruments like the clarinet and saxophone do not obv
 iously have anything in common with a bowed violin string. This talk will 
 explore the physics behind how these instruments work\, and it will reveal
  some unexpectedly strong parallels between them. This is all the more sur
 prising because all of them rely on strongly nonlinear phenomena\, and non
 linear systems are notoriously tricky: significant commonalities between d
 isparate systems are rare. For all the instruments\, computer simulations 
 will be used to give some insight into questions a musician may ask: What 
 variables must a player control\, and how? Why are some instruments “eas
 ier to play” than others?
LOCATION:Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre\, Department of Chemistry
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