Imagine a sound, a tone. Engineering and math might go into creating a musical instrument that can make that tone, but that same sound also depends on acoustics, perception, creativity — a multitude ...

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Throughout musical history, countless instruments have faced extinction, victims of changing tastes, industrialization, and ...

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