Woodwinds

We now consider models of woodwind instruments, focusing on the single-reed case. In §6.2, tonehole modeling is described in some detail.

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Subsections

• Single-Reed Instruments
  • Digital Waveguide Single-Reed Implementation
  • A View of Single-Reed Oscillation
  • Single-Reed Theory
    • Scattering-Theoretic Formulation
    • Computational Methods
  • Practical Details
  
  
• Tonehole Modeling
  • The Clarinet Tonehole as a Two-Port Junction
  • Tonehole Filter Design
  • The Tonehole as a Two-Port Loaded Junction
  
  
• Exercises

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written by 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.