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Convention Paper

Sound Production in the Wind Instruments

Authors: Backus, John

AES Convention 34 · Paper 568 · April 1968

Abstract

The wind instruments are self-excited acoustical oscillators which utilize the regenerative mechanism of the instrument reed to maintain complex oscillations in an approximately cylindrical or conical air column. The harmonic structure of this complex vibration and hence the radiated sound will depend on how much the resonance frequencies of the air column deviate from the frequencies of the harmonics of the air column vibration.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 34
AES Convention
34
Paper number
568
Publication date
April 6, 1968
Affiliation
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper