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April 15, 2013

Musical Acoustics of Baroque Bassoons

Dr. Bryant Hichwa
Sonoma State University

Darwin 103
4:00 PM

A connection between music and physics-- a bassoonist and a physicist, Dr. Bryant Hichwa, Sonoma State University (Emeritus), have worked together to model the standing wave physics in Baroque bassoons and accurately predict the pitch of the various notes of the bassoon.