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Foreword<br />

The present handbook covers a very wide field. Its 28 chapters range from the his<strong>to</strong>ry<br />

of acoustics <strong>to</strong> sound propagation in the atmosphere; from nonlinear and underwater<br />

acoustics <strong>to</strong> thermoacoustics and concert hall acoustics. Also covered are musical<br />

acoustics, including computer and electronic music; speech and singing; animal (including<br />

whales) communication as well as bioacoustics in general, psychoacoustics<br />

and medical acoustics. In addition, there are chapters on structural acoustics, vibration<br />

and noise, including optical methods for their measurement; microphones, their calibration,<br />

and microphone and hydrophone arrays; acoustic holography; model analysis<br />

and much else needed by the professional engineer and scientist.<br />

Among the authors we find many illustrious names: Yoichi Ando, Mack Breazeale,<br />

Babrina Dunmire, Neville Fletcher, Anders Gade, William Hartmann, William Kuperman,<br />

Werner Lauterborn, George Maling, Brian Moore, Allan Pierce, Thomas Rossing,<br />

Johan Sundberg, Eric Young, and many more. They hail from countries around the<br />

world: Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Japan, Korea, Sweden, the<br />

United Kingdom, and the USA. There is no doubt that this handbook will fill many<br />

needs, nay be irreplaceable in the art of exercising <strong>to</strong>day’s many interdisciplinary tasks<br />

devolving on acoustics. No reader could wish for a wider and more expert coverage.<br />

I wish the present <strong>to</strong>me the wide acceptance and success it surely deserves.<br />

Göttingen, March 2007 Manfred R. Schroeder<br />

Prof. Dr. M. R. Schroeder<br />

University Professor<br />

Speach and <strong>Acoustics</strong> Labora<strong>to</strong>ry<br />

University of Göttingen,<br />

Germany<br />

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