Discussed the creation of a new family of violins, constructed on the basis of mathematical design, that cover the range between the low tones of a seven-foot contrabass violin and the high tones of a tiny treble violin. Some music history is also considered. (Author/RK)

Discusses the physical properties, sources, physiological effects, and legislation pertaining to noise, especially noise characteristics in the community. Indicates that noise reduction steps can be taken more intelligently after determination of the true noise sources and paths. (CC)

Discusses the design and operation of a high Q acoustical resonant chamber which can be used to demonstrate wave phenomena such as three-dimensional normal modes, Q values, densities of states, changes in the speed of sound, Fourier decomposition, damped harmonic oscillations, sound-absorbing properties, and perturbation and scattering problems.…

Research supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation. (DD)

The machines are used to facilitate better aural perception by adapting the model to be imitated. The Suvag is intended for use with hard of hearing; the Suvag Lingua is more pedagogically oriented. (DD)

SGAV is the acronym for the Structural-Global-Audio-Visual method. (DD)

Research supported by a grant to the senior author from the Australian Research Grants Committee. (DD)

Research supported by a grant from the National Institute of Health. (DD)

A procedure for controlling word encodings tested the effects on recognition memory of acoustic encoding and 2 types of semantic encoding. (Editor)

Results suggested that the ability to manipulate the phonetic components of the spoken language has an important bearing on the development of reading skill. (Authors)

Paper based on experiment 1 which was presented at the Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, St. Louis, Mo., 1972. (RS)