Flutes, Recorders, and Pipe Organs

A chapter on the fundamental aero-acoustics of wind instruments appears in [196], and a comprehensive treatment of the acoustics of air jets in recorder-like instruments is given in [530].

A comprehensive review article on lumped models for flue instruments appears [130] in a special issue (July/August 2000) of the Acustica journal on ``musical wind instrument acoustics.'' An overview of research on woodwinds and organs appears in [129]. Follow-up publications by this research group include papers concerning the influence of mouth geometry on sound production in flue instruments [108,418].

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About the Author: Julius Orion Smith III
Julius Smith's background is in electrical engineering (BS Rice 1975, PhD Stanford 1983). He is presently Professor of Music and Associate Professor (by courtesy) of Electrical Engineering at Stanford's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), teaching courses and pursuing research related to signal processing applied to music and audio systems. See http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/ for details.