UIUC Physics 406
Acoustical Physics of Music
Student Projects/Experimental Results
Spring Semester 2016:

1. Anthony Dicristofano and Amanda Manaster investigated vibrato and tremelo effects in various musical instruments.

2. Alex Taylor rebuilt/restored a 60s-era Teisco Melody Amp, and measured some of its performance properties.

3. Brett Barsanti built a wine glass piano.

4. Dan Peterson and Gino Giannetti built a full-bridge stereo plasma-arc speaker.

5. Dan Gandy and Guangya Niu designed, built and tested a 3-D printed meta-material acoustic lens.

6. David Prager and Joseph Burkhalter investigated some of the acoustical properties of a ukulele.

7. Joe Mirabelli, Xulai Xu and Itamar Allali analyzed various human whistle sounds.

8. Gilad Margalite and Josh Kable used cross-correlation techniques to analyse low-frequency brain-wave signals, and acoustical signals.

9. Lienne Pyzik constructed a steel pan drum and also investigated the acoustical physics of a steel pan drum.

10. Luke Wortsmann investigated acoustic levitation and also standing acoustical waves in a square waveguide.

11. Mark Peterson designed, built and investigated the acoustic properties of a 3D-printed elliptical acoustic lens.

12. Max Harrold carried out a harmonic comparison of commercial pitch-shifter software.

13. Nathan Moran designed and built a theremin.

14. Robert Madsen investigated the acoustical effects of the snares on a snare drum.

15. Suchisman Gangopadhyay investigated the acoustical attributes of a Bacon banjo.

16. Thomas Jerome designed, built and tested a loudspeaker enclosure.

17. Wei Ren and Decheng Fang built a stereo headphone amplifier, and also developed a setup to investigate real-time 3-D sound spatalization.

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