0957-4174/$ see front matter 2011 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.eswa.2011.12.058 q This work was supported by the Engineering an Council (EPSRC) under the Grant GR/S00859/01. ⇑ Corresponding author. Tel.: +65 98610618. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (B plymouth.ac.uk (E.C. Ifeachor). A novel, generic framework for musical instrument sound design is proposed. The framework uses an i...

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