Hey all!

The recent discussions on physical modeling have me doing lots of spectral analysis lately. I'm curious about tracking down the individual qualities of a given instrument, for instance the wolf tones in a cello, or the exact properties of a Bass Clarinet Flutter Tongue.

Do you guys know of any strategies/papers/projects that can help me in this quest?

Of course I can do tons of FFT, but I'm not 100 percent sure what I'm looking for inside the tone of each of these, and I think FFT works best when you know what you are looking for.

Thanks!

Hello baordog:
I'm sure you want to swim in thick mud, so I send you a little compass, he he. I found this PhD Thesis disertation quite interesting. It's related to violins and bowed strings and shows some models. Have fun, and never forget to play music!

http://web.media.mit.edu/~young/publications/Young_Dissertation_2007.pdf

Sumidero

This is great!

It got me thinking about really studying the "normal" behavior of the instrument versus the "player" behavior.

Unfortunately I don't have the opportunity to study my performers up close - just from recordings, so all the neat bow measuring stuff will have to wait for another project.