Biografía del autor
PATRIZIO BARBIERI has taught musical acoustics at the University of Lecce and historical organs at the Gregorian University of Rome. He has also lectured at the Laboratorio di acustica musicale e architettonica of the Fondazione Scuola di San Giorgio CNR in Venice. He has published three books and about 130 articles, and was awarded the 2008 Frances Densmore Prize by the American Musical Instrument Society for the best article in English on musical instruments published in 2006-7. In 1999-2003 he was also one of the two consultants involved in the reconstruction of the Villa d'Este water organ, at Tivoli.