Application Of Musical Acoustics In Playing Of Dulcimer

Dulcimer is a kind of musical instrument both old and young an instrument, whose appearance in the world could be traced back to the 16^th century, but its vitality never weakens after so many years. With its hundred years of history, dulcimer is still in a dynamic state in its development. However, the development of dulcimer in China lacks scientific content in many respects, for example in its improvement and manufacture, we are lack of scientific attitude in discussion, and concise scientific data in manufacturing technology .Dulcimer is now in a critical period in its reform, which requires to transcend a platform for further development. In order to have a breakthrough in its development, we need to go to its native culture for the solution.Acoustics is an overlapping discipline of music and physics .The theory of modern acoustics did not have a great progress until 1950s after introducing into China. The establishment of many institutes and labs of acoustics marked a new period in the research history of acoustics. However, some problems still exist, like neglecting the building up a research team, divorce of theory from practice. The course of acoustics, a compulsory course in many countries, is always neglected in many music colleges in China. Many experts in music still lack far behind the international level in their sense for music and pursuit of technology due to lack of basic knowledge in...