Continuous-excitation instruments exhibit slow attacks and steady sustain levels
Evidence
Musical instruments with continuous excitation typically show slower attack times and steady sustain levels. For example, the sound of the flute starts from noise caused by blowing, and the actual vibration due to the resonance of the air column grows slower. — Ville Pulkki, Matti Karjalainen, Communication Acoustics- An…, 689
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
- XREF: Connects to the source-filter model thread later in this same chapter on speech synthesis and instrument acoustics.
Related
- Continuous-excitation instruments like flutes attack slowly while impulse-excited ones do not (similarity 0.92)
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- Perceptually distinct instrument timbres are practically infinite yet cluster into families (similarity 0.80)
- Musical instruments couple excitation to resonances; human speech does not (similarity 0.80)
- Musical instrument acoustics reduce to a source-modifier model (similarity 0.78)
- All musical instruments and voices share a source-filter acoustic structure (similarity 0.78)