Musical Acoustics Research Library<br>
New Digital Collection and Website<br>
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Stanford University Libraries has provided digital access to
large portions of the Musical Acoustics Research Library (MARL) making
available important research papers from some of the most eminent
acousticians of the 20th century (<a href="http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt6h4nf6qc/" target="_blank">http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt6h4nf6qc/</a><div id=":173">).
The MARL collection consisting of nearly 60 linear feet of materials is
dedicated to the study of all aspects of musical acoustics. The
collection, established in 1996, came about through a joint effort of
Carleen Hutchins and other representatives of the Catgut Acoustical
Society (CAS), Stanford’s Center for Computer Research in Music and
Acoustics (CCRMA), and Virginia Benade. MARL consists of the research
materials from acousticians around the world who were dedicated to
studying different aspects of violin making, which make up the Catgut
Acoustical Society papers, and the archives of three prominent wind
instrument acousticians, John Backus, John W. Coltman, and especially
Arthur H. Benade. Benade’s work extends far beyond the study of wind
instruments and includes the acoustic properties of a performer’s mouth
cavity, throat, and lungs; the sound patterns that emerge from the open
holes and bells of instruments and the sound a space returns to an
instrument; the perception of hearing; and room acoustics and the
successful design of concert halls. The collection consists of
correspondence, research papers, photographs, media, digital materials,
wood samples, clarinet mouth pieces, and lab equipment.<br>
In addition to the MARL, the entire forty-one years of the
Newsletter and Journal of the Catgut Acoustical Society are completely
available online (<a href="http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8gt5p1r/" target="_blank">http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8gt5p1r/</a>).
The Catgut Acoustical Society was formed by acousticians interested in
the acoustics of the violin and other string instruments. In May 1964,
the Society published its first Newsletter, an informal, typewritten
periodical printed by a stencil duplicator that soon matured into a
scholarly research publication. The title changed to the Journal of the
Catgut Acoustical Society in 1984 and again in 1990 to CAS Journal,
ending in 2004 when the Society merged with the Violin Society of
America as the CAS Forum.<br>
The digital projects were funded by the Violin Society of
America, CCRMA, the Stanford University Arts Institute, and the Stanford
University Libraries.<br>
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Jonathan Manton<br>
Sound Archives Librarian<br>
Archive of Recorded Sound<br>
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Braun Music Center<br>
Stanford University<br>
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