[Hornlist] Music Physics

[Adam Watts]

   Seeing as the board lacks traffic at the moment, I thought it may be 
more prudent to ask this slightly odd question now. I am a freshman 
physics student at UIUC, and I am working with an adviser to create an 
option for my major (Engineering Physics) in Acoustics. My ultimate goal 
is to use physics in the realm of the French Horn, either by working in 
a design team for a company like Conn-Selmer, or in a private shop 
designing mouthpieces, or something similar; I used to make my own 
mouthpieces in my high school's metal shop, and it fascinated me. 
However, I'm not too sure what classes I should look for, or to whom I 
should speak about entering this sort of field. I am currently in a 
Physics of Music class, and am preparing to do a research project on the 
horn (the link to which I'll post here if anyone is interested), and am 
currently reading Backus' /The Acoustical Foundations of Music/ and 
Benade's /Fundamentals of Musical Acoustics/. Does anyone on this list 
have any suggestions as to people I should contact for 
advice/information, internship opportunities in the Champaign IL area, 
career possibilities, books to read, or anything I would find useful? I 
would greatly appreciate any advice.

Thanks in advance,
Adam Watts
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