String Physics

Acoustics FAQ - Music Science at the University of New South Wales

A Primer on the History and Technology of Strings - Ephraim Segerman

Strings, Standing Waves, and Harmonics - Music Science at the University of New South Wales

Marin Marsenne Biography - University of St Andrews, Scotland - School of Mathematics and Statistics

String Properties, String Excitation, and String Instrument Resonances - HyperPhysics

[Wiki] String (Music)

[Wiki] Musical Acoustics

[Wiki] Mersenne’s Laws - Describing the frequency and oscillation of a stretched string

[PDF] Waves and Music - Dr. Jim Hetrick. University of Michigan - Dearborn

[Video] Standing Waves and Stringed Instruments Simplified - Jon Bergmann

[Latin] Tractatus Mechanicus Theoricus et Practicus - Marin Mersenne. Antoine Bertier/Paris, 1644

[PDF] Physics of the Violin and Its Defining Influence Upon Technic - Judson Custer, B.M. North Texas State Teachers College, August 1941

The Technology of Cordage, Fibers and Rope - David Himmelfarb. Textile Book Publishers/New York, 1957

The Bowed Strings: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow - Carleen M. Hutchins and Marjorie Bram. Music Educators Journal, Vol. 60, No. 3, pp. 20-25, 1973

Giordano Riccati on the Diameters of Strings and Pipes - Patrizio Barbieri. The Galpin Society Journal, Vol. 38, pp. 20-34, 1985

[Italian] Acustica Accordatura e Temperamento Nell'Illuminismo Veneto (Acoustics Tuning and the Temperament in the Venetian Enlightenment) - Patrizio Barbieri. Ed. Torre d’Orfeo, 1987

[Video] Exploring Music – Science, Strings, and Symphonies - Charles Taylor. The Royal Institution, 1989

Harp Strings of the Eighteenth and Twentieth Centuries: An Acoustical Comparison - Ian M. Firth and Claire Sykes. The Galpin Society Journal, Vol. 43, pp. 46-59, 1990

[PDF] Gold- and Silver-Stringed Musical Instruments: Modern Physics vs. Aristotelianism in the Scientific Revolution - Patrizio Barbieri. Journal of the American Musical Instrument Society, Vol. XXXVI, 2010

[PDF] Guitar Stringing in Late Nineteenth-Century North America: The Emergence of Steel - Nicholas Pyall. The Journal of the American Musical Instrument Society, Vol. XL, 2014

Violin Pedagogy and the Physics of the Bowed String - Alexander Rhodes McLeod. University of Toronto, 2014

Physics of Stringed Instruments - Gordon Ramsey and Katarzyna Pomian. 167th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, 2014

[PDF] Physics and Psychoacoustics of Plucked-String Instruments - Wiliam H. Roberts. Cardiff University, 2015

[PDF] Comparison of Mechanical Properties of Natural Gut and Synthetic Polymer Harp Strings - Nicolas Lynch-Aird and Jim Woodhouse. MDPI, Materials, Vol. 11, Issue 11, 2018

[PDF] Frequency Measurement of Musical Instrument Strings Using Piezoelectric Transducers - Nicolas Lynch-Aird and Jim Woodhouse. MDPI, Vibration, Vol. 1, Issue 1, 2018

ESR [Electron Spin Resonance] and Radiocarbon Dating of Gut Strings From Early Plucked Instruments - Sumiko Tsukamoto, Taro Takeuchi, Atsushi Tani, Yosuke Miyairi, Yusuke Yokoyama. Methods and Protocols, MDPI/Basel, 2020

[Video] The Effects of Humidity Changes on Natural Gut Harp Strings - Nicolas Lynch-Aird and Jim Woodhouse. 180th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, June 2021

[PDF] Effects of Twisting and Surface Finish on the Mechanical Properties of Natural Gut Harp Strings - Nicholas Lynch-Aird and Jim Woodhouse. MDPI Materials, Vol. 16, Issue 15, 2023