• Beats
• Scales (general comments)
• Just vs Equal Temperament
• Western Scales and Chords
• Pythagorean Scale
• Pentatonic Scales
• Hexatonic Scales
• Blues Scales
• Equal Tempered Scale - Table of Frequencies and Wavelengths in air
• Equal Temperament compared to Mean Tone - Table of Frequencies
• Some Other Scales
• Making sense of cents
• Sounds and Spectra
• Speed of Sound in Air
• Conical vs Cylindrical Bores
• Clarinet Comments
• Saxophone Sounds
• Phase Shifts and Sounds
• Make your own Flutes
• Fife dimensions
• G Flute from PVC Plumbing
• Native American - like PVC Flute
• Calculating Flute Finger Hole Positions
• Make your own wind chimes
• Acoustics in Tubes and Ducts
• Acoustic Filters
• Terminating Impedance
• Measuring propagation
• Duct and Filter References
• Room Acoustics
• Reverberation Time
• Absorbers
• Diffusers
• Table of Primitive Root and Quadratic Residue Sequences
• White Noise Sources
• The Linear Feedback Shift Register
• Other Tap Positions
• Blank Staffs for composing (PDF)
• Some General References

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These notes initially arose after a short summer program in 1998 and are placed here for the convenience of anyone who cares to read them.
The author is B. H. Suits, Physics Department, Michigan Technological University, copyright 1998-2013.