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Acta Acust.
Volume 8, 2024
Topical Issue - Musical Acoustics: Latest Advances in Analytical, Numerical and Experimental Methods Tackling Complex Phenomena in Musical Instruments
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| Article Number | 60 | |
| Number of page(s) | 12 | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/aacus/2024037 | |
| Published online | 08 November 2024 | |
Scientific Article
What makes the duduk special
1
Laboratoire Manceau de Mathématiques, Avenue Olivier Messiaen, 72085 Le Mans, France
2
Laboratoire d’Acoustique de l’Université du Maine, UMR CNRS 6613, Avenue Olivier Messiaen, 72085 Le Mans, France
* Corresponding author: jean-pierre.dalmont@univ-lemans.fr
Received:
13
March
2024
Accepted:
16
July
2024
The duduk is a double reed instrument with cylindrical bore originating from Armenia. It is characterized by a deep and melancholic sound that has become one of the characteristics of Armenian music. Although its physical characteristics bring it close to the oboe (double reed) and the clarinet (cylindrical bore), its timbre make the duduk a distinct instrument. The present article aims at explaining this particularity by calibrating the parameters of a reed wind instrument model adapted for the duduk that can capture the main characteristics of the duduk sound. For this, physical measurements are made using an artificial mouth. Simulations are in good agreement with experiments and show that a clarinet model with a low reed resonance frequency is able to reproduce the main features of the duduk. This low reed frequency appears to be the main specificity of the duduk.
Key words: Reed wind instrument / Double reed / Clarinet
© The Author(s), Published by EDP Sciences, 2024
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