Membranophones are one of the main divisions Musical Instruments. They further classified by many features. One such feature is shape and structure. Hour Glass Drums comes under this one. These ancient drums seen from early Times. called as Talking in West Africa. In drum pitch can be regulated according to tone prosody human speech. Most talking sound like a humming depending on way they playe...

This paper presents the first qualitative user study focusing on composers’ experiences in working with musical robots. Increasingly complicated mechatronic musical instruments have resulted in an increasing number of expressive affordances exposed to users. As the mechatronic instruments grow more complicated, they potentially become more difficult to use, necessitating some form of mapping sc...

The acoustical properties of wood for instruments have mostly been studied on a few archetypal woods in Western musical instruments. The objective of this paper is to extend knowledge on the diversity in wood properties and uses in instruments from different geo-cultural areas. A wide set of data has been collected on vibrational properties of 452 species, through experiments and literature sur...

The principle of closed wavetrains asserts the equivalence of the condition of a traveling wave closing onto itself in phase to the occurrence of a mode. This principle provides a direct conceptual link between spectral descriptions of dynamic responses and a path-based dynamic description. In this paper we present the history and development of the idea since d’Alembert first proposed travelin...

In the past, natural ceramic biomaterials like bones and seashells were used to make music. Today, ceramics are largely absent from musical scene. Yet, recent development of bio-inspired could be create instruments that emulate sound ancient times, do not use endangered animal species or enable exploration new types this paper, question whether would suitable for usage in instrument is posed. T...

Alan P. Merriam’s definition of ethnomusicology as “the study music culture” has sometimes led to the erroneous opinion that we will gain no insights into other cultures by research their musical practices and specialized knowledge conceptualizations go along with them. To be sure, is part a given culture and, therefore, worthy scrutiny any aspect culture. When trying elucidate emic conceptuali...