A wind instrument can be described as a closed feedback loop made up of a linear passive
element—the resonator—and a lumped nonlinear element—the mouthpiece. A method for …

Since the late 19th century, researchers have measured and predicted the acoustic
properties of single-reed instruments like the clarinet and saxophone. According to …

This paper presents experimental results that quantify the range of influence of vocal tract
manipulations used in saxophone performance. The experiments utilized a measurement …

Clarinettists combine non-standard fingerings with particular vocal tract configurations to
achieve pitch bending, ie, sounding pitches that can deviate substantially from those of …

Analysis of the acoustical functioning of musical instruments invariably involves the
estimation of model parameters. The broad aim of this paper is to develop methods for …

A modal computation of a complete clarinet is presented by the association of finite-element
models of the reed and of part of the pipe with a lumped-element model of the rest of the …

Two limit cases are well known concerning the spectrum of cylindrical instruments excited by
a reed: the small oscillations case, for which the nth odd harmonic has an amplitude …

We introduce a web-based database that gives details of the acoustics of soprano and tenor
saxophones for all standard fingerings and some others. It has impedance spectra …

Today, the musical interest of physical modeling synthesis is well defined (eg, Keefe 1992;
Smith 1996). In particular, time-domain simulation of the physical operation of musical …

Ce document traite de la production sonore dans les instruments de musique à anche
simple. Ceux-ci forment, en association avec le musicien, un système dynamique complexe …