After a rather long interval, I have finally completed a draft of a long chapter on wind instruments. This gives an overview of all the main families of wind instrument: reeds, brass, free reeds and air-jet instruments like the flute. Simple computer simulations are used to shed some light on the differences of behaviour between these families. But in the case of the free reeds and the air-jet instruments, the complexities of fluid dynamics thwart efforts to develop simple model that capture all the relevant physics.
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