HISTORY OF PHYSICS
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman and his love for music.
Although he didn't study them exhaustively, Raman discovered that the rich tonal quality of the tambura and veena (shown below) was due to the peculiarity of the bridge.
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Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman and his love for music.
Although he didn't study them exhaustively, Raman discovered that the rich tonal quality of the tambura and veena (shown below) was due to the peculiarity of the bridge.
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It is to this that Raman attributed the richness of the tone
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Raman was also fascinated by what he called the "remarkable appreciation of acoustical principles" on the part of ancients Indian, for example in the mridangam and the tabla, shown below.
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(But there are very good ones :) )
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Because of this nonlinear density distribution, the higher modes of vibration become harmonics, and that is what adds to their tonal quality.
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