Acoustics of wind musical instruments

Author: James Hadden, W.

Keywords: Wind instruments
Musical instruments
Winds (Musical instruments)

Issue Date: 1970

Publisher: Sangeet Natak Akademi, New Delhi

Description: This article covers two basic goal first a brief description of the physics of wind driven musical instruments and second is a report on a very recent study of one feature of the shehnai and its Western counterpart the oboe which illustrates nicely the contrast in the two societies criteria for acceptable musicaI instruments. Briefly the result is that the shehnai has a pitch flexibility which is twice to thrice that of the oboe its Western physical counterpart.

Source: Sangeet Natak Akademi

Type: Article

Received From: Sangeet Natak Akademi


DC Field Value
dc.contributor.author James Hadden, W.
dc.date.accessioned 2017-06-19T06:17:01Z
dc.date.available 2017-06-19T06:17:01Z
dc.date.issued 1970
dc.description.abstract This article covers two basic goal first a brief description of the physics of wind driven musical instruments and second is a report on a very recent study of one feature of the shehnai and its Western counterpart the oboe which illustrates nicely the contrast in the two societies criteria for acceptable musicaI instruments. Briefly the result is that the shehnai has a pitch flexibility which is twice to thrice that of the oboe its Western physical counterpart.
dc.source Sangeet Natak Akademi
dc.format.extent 93-99p.
dc.format.mimetype application/pdf
dc.language.iso en
dc.publisher Sangeet Natak Akademi, New Delhi
dc.subject Wind instruments
Musical instruments
Winds (Musical instruments)
dc.type Article
dc.identifier.issuenumber 17
dc.format.medium text
DC Field Value
dc.contributor.author James Hadden, W.
dc.date.accessioned 2017-06-19T06:17:01Z
dc.date.available 2017-06-19T06:17:01Z
dc.date.issued 1970
dc.description.abstract This article covers two basic goal first a brief description of the physics of wind driven musical instruments and second is a report on a very recent study of one feature of the shehnai and its Western counterpart the oboe which illustrates nicely the contrast in the two societies criteria for acceptable musicaI instruments. Briefly the result is that the shehnai has a pitch flexibility which is twice to thrice that of the oboe its Western physical counterpart.
dc.source Sangeet Natak Akademi
dc.format.extent 93-99p.
dc.format.mimetype application/pdf
dc.language.iso en
dc.publisher Sangeet Natak Akademi, New Delhi
dc.subject Wind instruments
Musical instruments
Winds (Musical instruments)
dc.type Article
dc.identifier.issuenumber 17
dc.format.medium text