Clarinet Analysis

A clarinet is generally considered to be closed-open.

Its tone (shown here in the steady state) can be viewed in both time and frequency domain.

**Figure 5:** Frequency analysis of a clarinet note.
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Summing sinusoids at 145, 433 and 732 Hz (as well as others), can approximate a synthesis of the clarinet (in the steady state).

``Music 171: Additive Synthesis'' by Tamara Smyth, Department of Music, University of California, San Diego (UCSD).