If you are visiting this web page to learn to be a musician, I am complimented by your trust in my abilities as a musician myself, but you are very much in the wrong place. The data and information collected below is not intend to improve your playing (though if it does, I would be thrilled to hear about it!). Instead, with the information and data that follows, I hope to share with you some rather fascinating things I discovered regarding…

 

The Physics of Music

 

The following observations are specific to wind instruments (woodwind and brass). However, the same principles do apply to strings, singing (because vocal cords are a type of resonant string), and percussion (because percussion specializes on the beating of things).

 

Dig some of this stuff...because it's pretty neat (What can I say? Sound is exciting! Without it, the world would be a pretty quiet place!)!

Fluid Behaviors

From an Energy Standpoint

Mathematical Observations

What does any of this have to do with music?

Bibliography (ya know, the places where I learned this stuff from!)