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Snippets from this are given in plate 3 to show the simplification of 

 timbre as the sound decays. 



CONCLUSION 



I am aware that this survey by no means exhausts all recent work 

 on musical instruments, but there is a limit to what can be covered 

 in a single lecture. The instruments and topics to which I have 

 referred do in fact comprise those which physicists working in musical 

 acoustics — all too few, unfortunately — have been interested in during 

 the past decade. 



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