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Article

Publication Date

6-2015

Abstract

Previous work has demonstrated that structural vibrations of brass wind instruments can audibly affect the radiated sound. Furthermore, these broadband effects are not explainable by assuming perfect coincidence of the frequency of elliptical structural modes with air column resonances. In this work a mechanism is proposed that has the potential to explain the broadband influences of structural vibrations on acoustical characteristics such as input impedance, transfer function, and radiated sound. The proposed mechanism involves the coupling of axial bell vibrations to the internal air column. The acoustical effects of such axial bell vibrations have been studied by extending an existing transmission line model to include the effects of a parasitic flow into vibrating walls, as well as distributed sound pressure sources due to periodic volume fluctuations in a duct with oscillating boundaries. The magnitude of these influences in typical trumpet bells, as well as in a complete instrument with an unbraced loop, has been studied theoretically. The model results in predictions of input impedance and acoustical transfer function differences that are approximately 1 dB for straight instruments and significantly higher when coiled tubes are involved or when very thin brass is used.

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This article appeared in Wilfried Kausel, Vasileios Chatziioannou, Thomas R. Moore, Britta R. Gorman, and Michelle Rokni. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 137, 3149 (2015). This article may be found at http://scitation.aip.org/content/asa/journal/jasa/137/6/10.1121/1.4921270

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The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

DOI

10.1121/1.4806443

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