The Acoustics Research Group is based in the School of Physics and Astronomy, but has strong research links with several other disciplines including music, medicine and engineering.
The Group includes the Musical Acoustics Laboratory, one of the leading European centres for the scientific study and physical modelling of musical wind instruments. Current research in the field of musical acoustics includes the measurement of musical wind instrument bores and the vocal tracts of singers by acoustical methods, visualisation, measurement and modelling of the motion of brass players' lips and woodwind double reeds, and the study of a player's touch control on mechanical action pipe organs.
