In this research, a method previously applied to improve a digital simulation of the avian syrinx is adapted to the geometry of the clarinet reed. The clarinet model is studied with particular attention to the case when the reed beats again the lay of the mouthpiece, closing off air flow to the bore once each period. In place of the standard reed table which gives steady-state volume flow as a ...

In this work we estimate the volume flow pulses through a clarinet reed from recorded clarinet signal. The idea is similar to extracting glottal pulse sequences from recorded speech, however since the clarinet reed has little mass and generates significant reflection, the source-filter model used in speech processing invalid. Here, the clarinet is modeled as a pressure-controlled valve coupled ...

This is a polyphonic music dataset which can be used for versatile research problems, such as Multi-pitch Estimation and Tracking, Audio-score Alignment, Source Separation, etc. This dataset consists of the audio recordings of each part and the ensemble of ten pieces of four-part J.S. Bach chorales, as well as their MIDI scores, the ground-truth alignment between the audio and the score, the gr...

Parameters Ssynth Timbre dynamics Loudness Fundamental Frequency Protocol The goal of this experiment is to evaluate the voice timbre, in this case the ”vowel-space” for controlling a perceptual attribute of the sytnhesized sound (brightness). This task is a priori not intuitive for a singer, since it would tend to control the clarinet dynamics with the loudness, which relates to the actual aco...

The work presented here is part of a larger project directed toward a better understanding of the influence of timbre variations upon musical expressiveness. To address such an issue, we have limited our study to the relationship between the physics and playing of the clarinet, and the generated timbre. This reduction of the problem is justified by the fact that the clarinet is a physically wel...

The core purpose of clarinet teaching is to cultivate students' musical understanding ability, expression ability and performance skills, be able complete music alone or play an important part in the symphony. However, steep learning curve has high requirements for performers 'playing ability. Therefore, how improve quality strengthen playing also become a problem that junior school teachers ar...

Even if the tuning between the first and second register of a clarinet has been noticeably improved by instrument makers, the inharmonicity of the lowest twelfths (which are too large) is still an unsolved problem. In this paper, we attempt to understand the physical reasons for this problem and to explore whether or not it is possible to improve the accuracy of these twelfths. The starting poi...

Even if the tuning between the first and second register of a clarinet has been optimized by instrument makers, the lowest twelfths remain slightly too large (inharmonicity). In this article, we study the problem from two different points of view. First, we systematically review various physical reasons why this inharmonicity may take place, and the effect of different bore perturbations insert...