===== Mechanical Wind Player Development =====

**Participants:** Connor Kemp, Song Wang, Vincent Turcotte and Gary Scavone

**Period:** 2018 - ongoing

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==== Summary ====

An artificial wind player system is in development to support research on several topics, including:
  * to evaluate the long-term mechanical behaviour of cane and synthetic alto saxophone reeds, as well as their corresponding sound radiation characteristics;
  * to evaluate the aeroacoustic properties within the mouthpiece of saxophones and other wind instruments;
  * to evaluate the sounding characteristics of bassoons.