Musical Acoustics & Instrument Design: When Engineering Meets Music
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This paper documents an instrument-building course codeveloped by the School of Engineering and Applied Science and the Department of Music at Yale University. The course focuses on the fundamentals of musical acoustics, electronic sound production, and instrument design through traditional lecture-based learning as well as a hands-on experimentation and building. The structure of the course, the primary pedagogical objectives, the facilities, and examples of final projects realized by the students are discussed.
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