1. Materials in Musical Instruments Uwe J. Hansen Dept of Chemistry & Physics Indiana State University

2. Essential Elements Power Supply Oscillator Resonator Amplifier Pitch Control

3. Power supply Bow Pick Mallet Lungs Hammer

4. Oscillator String Lips Reeds Membrane

5. Resonator String Body Air Column Membrane

6. Amplifier Body Air column Sound Board Membrane

7. Pitch Control String mass, tension, length Valves, slide Tone holes Embouchure

8. Examples of Structural Vibrations

9. Violin

10. Steel Pan

11. Triangle

12. Synthetic Materials Graphite Steel Marimba bars

13. Martin Schleske Munich Luthier &Scientist Layered Graphite sheets Copy vibrational modes