A History of Enabling Ideas Leading to Virtual Musical Instruments

This appendix summarizes some milestones toward the development of virtual musical instruments. Beginning with early musical acoustics, key developments in the literature deemed most enabling for virtual acoustic instruments are traced up to the mid 1980s, with an emphasis on string models (as in the text overall). Selected follow-on efforts are mentioned. A condensed version of this appendix was published in [449], with associated presentation overheads [451].