[Trombone-l] Acoustics of brass instruments

[Daniel Pliskin]

>In my opinion the way to resolve this would be to
>develop a mathematical model, confirmed by experiment, of the system as a
>whole so that the effects of changing one component on the other components
>could be predicted. But this would be a gargantuan task and almost
>impossible to model the human component given the infinite variations
>between us.


I sure wouldn't try to model a trombone in math.  But I might try to model 
it as electronic equivalents to acoustic impedances.  That way I could use 
PSpice.  One big problem , though, would be that I’ve have to be able to 
take an output file and turn it into something I could listen to.

I also have no idea how I’d model anything like a Bessel function, in 
PSpice.

DanP