When a musician is presented with an unfamiliar instrument, the natural reaction is to
investigate its properties and musical possibilities. If the instrument in question is a member …

Since the time of Helmholtz, brass instrument models have treated the lips of the player as a
pressure-controlled flow valve coupled to the instrument's resonating air column. This …

This study focuses on a particular attribute of trumpet tones, the brightness, and on the
physical characteristics of the instrument thought to govern its magnitude. On the one hand …

Artificial playing systems are very useful tools to study musical instruments, to compare
experiments with simulations, develop and validate new numerical models. Indeed, by …

When assessing the quality of a brass instrument the player must consider a number of
factors, the main consideration being the playability of the chosen instrument. The playability …

Sound simulations by physical modelling are interesting to transcribe the physics underlying
the functioning of a musical instrument. These simulations make it possible to listen to a …

This paper deals with a robotized artificial mouth adapted to brass instruments. A technical
description of the robotic platform is drawn, including calibrations, initialization processes …

When playing a brass instrument the lips of the player fulfil a similar role to the cane reeds of
wood-wind instruments. The nature of the motion of this lip-reed determines the ow of air …

The precise nature of the motion of the lips of the musician is critically important to the sound
of the brass wind instrument. The player must match the oscillation of the lips to the …

This paper investigates the subjects' ability to perceive trumpet sound changes, the sounds
being either simulated by physical modeling or played by a real musician. The objective of …