PAPERS ON THE ACOUSTICS OF FREE REED INSTRUMENTS
Free reed coupled with a pipe resonator - The Asian Free Reed mouth organs
James P. Cottingham and Eric A. Dieckman, "Measured and calculated sounding frequencies of pipes coupled with free reeds" Acoustical Society of America, Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, Vol. 4, 035003 (2009) Online PDF (510 kB)
James P. Cottingham, "Pitch Bending and Anomalous Behavior in a Free reed Coupled to a Pipe Resonator," Proceedings of the International Symposium on Musical Acoustics (ISMA2007), Barcelona, Spain, September 2007. PDF (574 kB)
Eric A. Dieckman and James P. Cottingham, "Input Impedance of Asian Free-Reed Mouth Organs," research report supported by National Science Foundation REU grant PHY-0354058, 2006. PDF (3970 kB)
James P. Cottingham, "The Asian free reed mouth organs." Proceedings of the International Symposium on Musical Acoustics (ISMA2001), Perugia, Italy, 10-14September 2001. PDF (62 kB)
James P. Cottingham, "Acoustics of a symmetric free reed coupled to a pipe resonator," Proceedings of the Seventh International Congress on Sound and Vibration, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, 4-7 July 2000. PDF (628 kB)
The American reed organ and other Western free reed instruments
James P. Cottingham, "Reed Vibration in Western Free-Reed Instruments," Proceedings of the International Congress on Acoustics (ICA2007), Madrid, Spain, September 2007. PDF (477 kB)
Ammon Paquette and James P. Cottingham, "Modes of Vibration of Air-driven Free Reeds in Steady State and Transient Oscillation," presentation given at the 137th meeting of The Acoustical Society of America, Austin Texas, 11 November 2003. PDF (822 kB)
James P. Cottingham, "Free reed acoustics: Experimental and theoretical studies of the American reed organ," from the Symposium, "Harmonium und Handharmonika," held at Stiftung Kloster Michaelstein near Blankenburg, Germany, November, 1999. Published as Michaelsteiner Konferenzberichte 62: Harmonium und Handharmonica, Stiftung Kloster Michaelstein, 2002. PDF (133 kB)
James P. Cottingham, Christopher H. Reed, and Michael Busha, "Variation of frequency with blowing pressure for an air-driven free reed," Collected Papers of the 137th meeting of The Acoustical Society of America and the 2nd Convention of the European Acoustics Association: Forum Acusticum, Berlin, March14-19, 1999. PDF (672 kB)
James P. Cottingham, C. Joseph Lilly, and Christopher H. Reed, "The motion of air-driven free reeds," Collected Papers of the 137th meeting of The Acoustical Society of America and the 2nd Convention of the European Acoustics Association: Forum Acusticum, Berlin, 14-19 March1999. PDF (607 kB)
Acoustical Society of America (ASA)
ASA Technical Committee on Musical Acoustics