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Oscillation and extinction thresholds of the clarinet: comparison of analytical results and experiments
Jean-Pierre Dalmont1, Cyrille Frappé
1Laboratoire d'Acoustique de l'Université du Maine (UMR CNRS 6613), Université du Maine, Le Mans, France. jean-pierre.dalmont@univ-lemans.fr
Abstract:
In the context of a simplified model of the clarinet in which the losses are assumed to be frequency independent the analytic expressions of the various thresholds have been calculated in a previous paper [Dalmont et al., J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 118, 32.94-3305 (2005)]. The present work is a quantitative comparison between "theoretical" values of the thresholds and their experimental values measured by using an artificial mouth. It is shown that the "Raman" model, providing that nonlinear losses are taken into account, is reliable and able to predict the values of thresholds.
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