Light carries a spin angular momentum associated with its polarization and an orbital angular momentum arising from its phase cross-section. Sound, being a longitudinal wave, carries no spin component but can carry an orbital component of angular momentum when endowed with an appropriate phase structure. Here, we use a circular array of loudspeakers driven at a common angular frequency ?s but with an azimuthally changing phase delay to create a sound wave with helical phase fronts described by exp?(i??). Such waves are predicted to have an orbital angular momentum to energy ratio of ?/?s. We confirm this angular momentum content by measuring its transfer to a suspended 60?cm diameter acoustic absorbing tile. The resulting torque on the tile (~6.1?10?6?Nm) is measured from observation of the motion for various torsional pendulums. Furthermore, we confirm the helical nature of the acoustic beam by observing the rotational Doppler shift, which results from a rotation between source and observer of angular velocity ?r. We measure Doppler shifted frequencies of ?s???r depending on the direction of relative rotation.
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