Acoustics of the Piano

Thursday, November 19, 1998 4:00 p.m. Dr. Thomas D. Rossing Department of Physics Northern Illinois University DeKalb, Illinois http://www.physics.niu.edu/fakepages/rossing.htm http://www.physics.niu.edu http://www.niu.edu The modern piano, which is a direct descendant of the harpsichord, has become the most versatile and popular of all musical instruments. In order to explain the production of sound in a piano, we…