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Estimation Of Saxophone Alternate Fingeringsā Conļ¬gurations
A method to estimate the saxophone ļ¬ngeringsā conļ¬gurations is presented. This is not solely a problem of pitch detection since a sounding pitch can be produced by multiple ļ¬ngering conļ¬gurations. The widely used spectral envelope technique in similar problem of speech analysis as a vocal tract impulse response is not suļ¬cient to solve the problem because a player can alter the envelope by controlling the reed vibration through embouchure and blowing pressure. Motivated by Saxophone playing technique, a theoretical model is proposed based on sub harmonicsā and main harmonicsā positions to identify ļ¬ngerings by measuring the similarity of the input sound spectrum peaksā positions and models. The proposed method has achieved the accuracy of 73% on a dataset of Bb tenor saxophone recordings, the result has been improved to 87% with combination of pitch as a complementary feature