Analogies in the production of speech and music
Johan Liljencrants · 1991
The production mechanisms of musical sounds and of speech have many common features. Obvious parallels to speech is found among the wind instruments, but the same basic laws apply to most other musical instruments, perhaps most prominently so when the filter is described as a wave equation in space and time. Then the difference between instrwnents becomes largely one of boundary conditions. Some design features of wind instruments are illustrated in the light of perturbation theory and the relations between pitch and spectrum are discussed.