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References
Clinkscale, M. N. (1999). Makers of the Piano, Volume 2. Oxford University Press, New York.
Giordano, N. J. (2010). Physics of the Piano. Oxford University Press, New York.
Giordano, N. J. (2011). Evolution of music wire and its impact on the devel- opment of the piano. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics 12, 035002.
Good, E. M. (2002). Giraffes, Black Dragons, and Other Pianos, 2nd edition. Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA.
Plack, C. J., and Oxenham, A. J. (2005). The psychophysics of pitch. In Plack, C. J., Oxenham, A. J., Fay, R. R., and Popper, A. N. (eds), Pitch: Neural Cod- ing and Perception. Springer-Verlag, New York, pp. 7-55.
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Nicholas Giordano joined Auburn Uni- versity in 2013 where he is a professor in the Department of Physics and Dean of the College of Sciences and Mathemat- ics. Before going to Auburn he was a member of the faculty at Purdue Uni- versity where he served as Head of the
Department of Physics from 2007–2013. He was an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow (1979–1983), received a Computa- tional Science Education Award from the U.S. Department of Energy in 1997, and was named Indiana Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching in 2004.
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