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Product Description: This study explores a controversial aspect of Western musical instrument design, establishing beyond question that the familiar stringed instrument outlines developed between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries were not arbitrary, intuitive shapes drawn within acoustically efficient frameworks, but were designs following a profoundly considered manipulation of plane geometry and numerical proportion...read more

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9780198161394 | Oxford Univ Pr, July 1, 1985, cover price $115.00 | About this edition: This study explores a controversial aspect of Western musical instrument design, establishing beyond question that the familiar stringed instrument outlines developed between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries were not arbitrary, intuitive shapes drawn within acoustically efficient frameworks, but were designs following a profoundly considered manipulation of plane geometry and numerical proportion.

Book by Buchanan, George

Hardcover:

9780809576128 | Borgo Pr, June 1, 1991, cover price $45.00

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9780806974644 | Sterling Pub Co Inc, November 1, 1990, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Book by Buchanan, George

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9780810888975 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, July 2, 2015, cover price $40.00

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