Advanced mathematics in stringed instrument industry

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This is a soft question. I play classical guitar and I find stringed instrument industry a very fascinating art. I know that, at least for classical guitar, this industry is still developing and exploring new techniques, so it is a very alive research field.

I know that it must involve at least some basic mathematics, but I was wondering if anyone has tried to apply deep mathematical tools and concepts in this field, for example from geometric analysis.

On the other hand I guess that these techniques could inspire very interesting mathematical questions.

What is the state of art of the interaction between maths and stringed instrument industry?

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Not sure of what your question is. There are the 3 major applied.maths/music topics :

  • Musical signal processing (automatic transcription, recognition).

  • A.I. and machine learning (automatic improvisation, computer assisted composition)

  • Physics & acoustic of musical instruments and sound synthesis.

The last one is special because the human voice is a musical instrument, and voice synthesis and analysis is a very active research field since more than 40 years.

All those subjects involve many mathematical tools : harmonic analysis (Fourier transform), differential equations & operator theory, convex optimization, probability and statistics, graph or group theory..

See this for a good start on the physics of stringed instruments.