This paper explores the influence of upstream vocal tract resonances in reed wind instrument performance and modeling. Vocal tract manipulations are a common, though sometimes subtle, performance practice exploited by experienced musicians to produce a variety of important acoustic effects, including contemporary performance techniques such as multiphonics and extended range playing. Several pr...

In this work we estimate the volume flow pulses through a clarinet reed from recorded clarinet signal. The idea is similar to extracting glottal pulse sequences from recorded speech, however since the clarinet reed has little mass and generates significant reflection, the source-filter model used in speech processing invalid. Here, the clarinet is modeled as a pressure-controlled valve coupled ...

In this paper, Reed Solomon (RS) decoder adopting the pipelined reduced inversion free Berlekamp Massey (pRiBM) algorithm is proposed. This Reed Solomon decoder is designed by equipping the Syndrome Computation unit, Key Equation Solver (KES), Chien search and Forney algorithm unit. The RS decoder requires long latency for decoding large number of test vectors. Therefore, the Reed Solomon decod...

In this paper we investigate the structure of quasi-BCH codes. In the first part of this paper we show that quasi-BCH codes can be derived from Reed-Solomon codes over square matrices extending the known relation about classical BCH and Reed-Solomon codes. This allows us to adapt the Welch-Berlekamp algorithm to quasi-BCH codes. In the second part of this paper we show that quasi-BCH codes can ...

This article proposes a characterization of the double reed in quasistatic regimes. The nonlinear relation between the pressure drop, deltap, in the double reed and the volume flow crossing it, q, is measured for slow variations of these variables. The volume flow is determined from the pressure drop in a diaphragm replacing the instrument's bore. Measurements are compared to other experimental...

Macroinvertebrates assemblages on reed beds, with special attention to Chironomidae (Diptera), in Mediterranean shallow lakes Macroinvertebrates associated to reed-beds (Phragmites australis) in six shallow natural water bodies along the 220 km of coast of the Comunidad Valenciana (Spain) were studied. These sites were selected to reflect different trophic states, but also, and due to the natur...

Red Hill I forms the northern end of the Northern Simpson Park Range, northwest of Eureka, Nevada. The Red Hill I locality (lowest part of Red Hill section II in Murphy et al. 1976, Red Hill I of Gregory et al. 1977) lies near the exposed bottom of a sequence of reddish, yellow and greenish gray silty lime mudstones, approximately 80 m thick, at the base of the southwest flank of Red Hill (NW ,...

We studied the diversity of oomycetes in a declining reed belt (Phragmites australis) of Lake Constance, Germany, using conventional baiting with specific reed and standard oak baits, accompanied by molecular techniques. Apart from an Aphanomyces sp. and a Phytophthora sp., baiting from reed rhizosphere samples from flooded, as well as drier, littoral sites revealed only Pythium spp. A total of...

In this work, a technique is presented for estimating the reed pulse from the pressure signal recorded at the bell of a clarinet during performance. The reed pulse is a term given to the typically periodic sequence of bore input pressure pulses, a signal related to the volume flow through a vibrating reed by the characteristic impedance of the aperture to the bore. The problem is similar to ext...