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Impedance measurements of clarinet player's airway

This page is an appendix for the scientific paper:
Fritz, C. and Wolfe, J. (2005) "How do clarinet players adjust the resonances of their vocal tracts for different playing effects?", J. Acoust. Soc. America 118, 3306-3315.

Here are the impedance measurements (magnitude and phase) for different players and for different playing effects :

- normal playing mode on the whole register (measured on G3, G4, G5 and G6)

- special effects like pitch bend, slurred register change and tight embouchure

- other special effects like different vowels or comparison between a nice and a bad sound. These measurements were done on suggestion of the players so they are not available for each player.

	normal playing	special effects	others
player A	magn. / phase	magn. / phase	magn. / phase
player B	magn. / phase	magn. / phase	magn. / phase
player C	magn. / phase	magn. / phase
player D	magn. / phase	magn. / phase	magn. / phase
player E	magn. / phase	magn. / phase
player F	magn. / phase	magn. / phase	magn. / phase

Links with background information

Clarinet acoustics
Clarinet and clarinettist : Influence of the vocal tract on the sound production, in french
Chen, J.M., Smith J. and Wolfe, J. (2009) "Pitch bending and glissandi on the clarinet: roles of the vocal tract and partial tone hole closure" J. Acoust. Soc. America, 126, 1511-1520.