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Modelling musical instruments is a particularly challenging task. For these structures, the complexity of both the continuous model and numerical formulation is mainly due to the high sensitivity of the human ear. An overview of the major difficulties are given, with regard to elastic and acoustic field equations, as well as to initial and boundary conditions. To illustrate these features, some recently obtained results in the modelling of some selected instruments are commented. A number of current advances and research perspectives for the near future are briefly described.
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Chaigne, A. (2003). Challenges and Requirements in the Modelling of Musical Instruments. In: Cohen, G.C., Joly, P., Heikkola, E., Neittaanmäki, P. (eds) Mathematical and Numerical Aspects of Wave Propagation WAVES 2003. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-55856-6_9
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