Handbook of Materials for Wind Musical Instruments

Introduction - the outline of the book.- Organologic description of wind instruments.- Wood species for reed -driven instruments - clarinet, saxophone, oboe, bassoon.- Materials for reeds of reed driven instruments.- Metallic materials for lip- driven instruments and for air jet driven instruments.- Fibrous auxiliary materials - the felt, the cork.- Organic auxiliary materials - the leather, the parchment.- Resonant air column in wind instruments.- Effect of wall material on vibration modes of walls of wind instruments.- Effect of bore shape and tone holes.- Methods for measuring the acoustic properties of wind instruments.- Manufacturing of tubes in metal for brass instruments and pipe organ.- Manufacturing of tubes and pipes in wood.- Manufacturing of reeds for reed driven instruments.- Manufacturing of pads and keys.- Digital fabrication of wind instruments.- Traditional cleaning and ultrasonic cleaning techniques for metallic wind instruments.- Degradation of organ pipes and of brass instruments.- Restoration and conservation of brass musical instruments.- Restoration and conservation of historical pipe organ.- Marble, the nondegradable material for pipe organs.