What is it about?
Sensors are mounted on clarinet/saxophone reeds in order to measure the vibrations of the reed while a musician is playing the instrument. This work studies to what extent the reeds are unaffected by the presence of the sensors.
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Why is it important?
Using sensor-equipped musical instruments may sometimes result in intrusive measurements that obstruct the musician's performance. This study shows that the presented sensors do not significantly affect the reed mechanics in the frequency range that they are expected to operate.
Perspectives
Being able to quantify reed vibrations under real-playing conditions opens up diverse possibilities in terms of analyzing different playing techniques and informing physics-based sound synthesis models.
Vasileios Chatziioannou
University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
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This page is a summary of: Influence of strain-gauge sensors on the vibrational behavior of single reeds, January 2016, Acoustical Society of America (ASA),
DOI: 10.1121/2.0000344.
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