Timbral Attributes for Objective Quality Assessment of the Irish Tin Whistle

Joseph Timoney; Thomas Lysaght; Lorcán Mac Manus; Andreas Schwarzbacher
DAFx-2004 - Naples
In this paper we extract various timbral attributes for a variety of Irish tin whistles, and use these attributes to form an objective quality assessment of the instruments. This assessment is compared with the subjective experiences of a number of professional musicians. The timbral attributes are drawn from those developed in the Timbre Model [1].
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