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ALTERNATIVES FOR PITCH CONTROL IN WIND INSTRUMENTS

When it comes to homemade instruments, simple wind instruments can be among the most rewarding. They can be compact yet versatile, loud enough to be heard without requiring pickups or amplification, and in their simpler forms they can be fairly easy to make without...

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  • METAL SHEET INSTRUMENTS
  • COMPLEX TIMBRES IN MUSICAL CONTEXT
  • AUDIORIUM — a new album from Bart
  • HARMONIC DAMPING
  • SCALE-LOGICS
  • SAMPLING A PREPARED PIANO
  • FIRST PRINCIPLES
  • CONJOINED STRING SYSTEMS
  • NOTES ON A MINIMAL KEYBOARD INSTRUMENT
  • WHICH MODE DOMINATES?
  • THE WINDOW GALLERY AT SAN FRANCISCO’S CENTER FOR NEW MUSIC
  • SHARED RESONANCES
  • MORE ON MEMBRANE REEDS
  • NORTH-SOUTH/EAST-WEST CHIMES (a Description)
  • WHAT-A-SHAME: Design and Construction
  • WOOD AND BUTTER
  • HOCKETING
  • TUBULAR CHIMES, ALTERED
  • POTWOT: A Torsional Musical Instrument
  • COIL SPRINGS AS SOUND SOURCES
  • ROTARY MUSIC MACHINES
  • SCRAPING
  • SOUND INVENTIONS: Selected Articles from Experimental Musical Instruments
  • THE SPEAKER DRIVER INSTRUMENT
  • GUITAR-LIKE-THINGS
  • STRING LATTICE GUITAR
  • SPOOLS & WHEELS
  • THREE PASSAGES FROM *INNER CHAPTERS*
  • SOLOWAY SIREN AND SAXTON SAVART
  • FLOPPING OVER
  • MORE SAMPLE LIBRARIES
  • ICICLES AND MORE
  • SCHMEARY GLISSARY
  • SLOPPINESS
  • ANIMATIONS
  • ADDITIONAL NOTES PERTAINING TO HOMEMADE WOODWIND MAKING
  • MORE ‘MOE
  • FORCED VIBRATION
  • NAMES AND APPEARANCES
  • SORRY-ASS ORGAN
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