Making
Gourd Musical Instruments: Over 60 String, Wind & Percussion Instruments
and How to Play Them by Summit, Ginger and Jim Widess, pub Sterling
Publishing 2000; ISBN: 080691369X
General information
about tropical plants and their uses: Tropical Forests and Their Crops
by Nigel J.H. Smith, J.T. Williams, Donald L. Plucknett and Jennifer P.
Talbot, pub Cornell University Press 1992; ISBN: 0801427711(Discusses
general groupings of useful plants)
Botany for Gardeners: An Introduction and Guide by Brian Capon,
B.T. Batsford 1992; ISBN: 0713472529 (A good general text on how plants
function)
A Field Guide to the Families and Genera of Woody Plants of Northwest
South America: (Colombia, Ecuador, Peru): With Supplementary Notes)
by Alwyn H. Gentry and Adrian B. Forsyth, University of Chicago Press1996;
ISBN: 0226289443 (An excellent resource on learning to identify tropical
plants in the field/forest)
Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients Used in Food, Drugs, and
Cosmetics by Albert Y. Leung and Steven Foster. 1995 John Wiley &
Sons Inc; ISBN: 0471508268
Fruits and Vegetables of the Caribbean by M.J.Bourne, G.W. Lennox,
and S.A. Seddon, Caribbean Publishing 1988, ISBN: 0333453115
We've
seen that musical notes can be explained using science. We can even predict
how to make notes using scientific equations but this doesn't help scientists
to become better musicians!