Title: REED WOODWIND INSTRUMENTS
1REED WOODWINDINSTRUMENTS
The Science of Sound, Chapter 12 The Physics of
Musical Instruments, Chapter 15
www.phys.unsw.edu.au/music/
2REED WOODWINDS
CLARINETS ALTO, Bb, C, Eb, A, BASS
OBOE, ENGLISH HORN
SAXOPHONES ALTO, TENOR, BARITONE, SOPRANO
BASSOON
3HOW A CLARINET WORKS
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5CLARINET - RANGE OF BLOWING PRESSURE
6INWARD AND OUTWARD STRIKING REEDS
FLOW VELOCITY AS A FUNCTION OF BLOWING PRESSURE
FOR A CLARINET
7CYLINDRICAL AND CONICAL PIPES
8WHAT ABOUT TRUNCATED CONES?
ARE THE RESONANCES HARMONIC?
9INPUT IMPEDANCE OF THE CLARINET
EFFECT OF REGISTER HOLES
3 REGISTERS OF A CLARINET
10EFFECT OF REGISTER HOLES
11WAVEFORM
THREE NOTES ON A CLARINET
SPECTRUM
12LATTICE OF OPEN TONE HOLES
CUTOFF FREQUENCY
13EFFECT OF REED STIFFNESS
14THE SAXOPHONE IS A CLOSED PIPE
15CONTRABASS SAXOPHONE
LARGEST WOODWIND INSTRUMENT
16TUNING OF VOCAL TRACT BY SAXOPHONE PLAYER
17OBOE
WAVEFORM
SPECTRUM
18BASSOON
19BASSOON
20EARLY WOODWIND INSTRUMENTS
21BAGPIPES
HIGHLAND BAGPIPES
22NORTHUMBRIAN BAGPIPE
23DIRECTIONAL RADIATION
24From J. Meyer Acoustics and the Performance of
Music (Verlag das Musikinstrument, Frankfurt am
Main, 1978
25TYPICAL BLOWING PRESSURES IN WOODWINDS
TYPICAL BLOWING PRESSURES ACROSS THE MAIN
COMPASS OF CLARINET ALTO SAXOPHONE, OBOE, AND
BASSOON, FOR PIANO AND FORTE PLAYING
Fuks and Sundberg, 1996
26SPECTRAL ENVELOPE OF (IDEALIZED) WOODWIND
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