Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. Plucked Strings 3. Guitars and Lutes 4. Portuguese Guitar 5. Banjo 6. Mandolin Family Instruments 7. Psalteries and Zithers 8. Harpsichord and Clavichord 9. The Harp 10. The Burmese Arched Harp 11. Plucked String Instruments in Asia 12. Bowed Strings 13. Violin 14. Cello 15. Double Bass 16. Bows, Strings, and Bowing 17. Viols and Other Historic Bowed String Instruments 18. The Hutchins-Schelleng Violin Octet after 50 Years 19. Hammered Strings 20. Some Remarks on the Acoustics of the Piano 21. The Hammered Dulcimer 22. The Electric Guitar and Violin 23. Virtual String Synthesis

About the Author

Tom Rossing has taught musical acoustics for nearly 50 years, and has been active in research in this area for at least 30 years. In 1992 he was awarded the Silver Medal in Musical Acoustics by the Acoustical Society of America, and his biography is included in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. He is also the editor of the 2006 Springer Handbook of Acoustics. In 2009 he was awarded the ASA Gold Medal by the Acoustical Society of America for contributions to musical acoustics, leadership in science education, and service to the Society.