David Politzer, “The Physics of Banjos” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Ideas Roadshow Podcast
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The Clarinet Obo Story
The clarinet obo story has all got me excited about physics of music. We're going to find out where the three came from, and there are many heroes in this story. So i had banjos that were very similar, except for the height. But the height range was small. And i realized that the differences in sound between them were discernible. Might well be attributable to their other differences, like, a, where the bridge sat on the drumhead. Once you have frets, you can't move it around. You're isolating the other degrees. O, you mit write.
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