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Timbre Analysis of the Hulusi, a Southwestern Chinese Free-Reed Instrument, using Machine Learning

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 14, 2026 · UTC

The hulusi is a wind instrument that was invented in Yunnan Province, China, and has become tremendously popular in recent years. It consists of a mouthpiece, a gourd, and three bamboo tubes, all with free reeds made of copper. The main bamboo tube in the middle has seven finger holes. In this instrument, the pipe length, not the free reed's eigenfrequency, determines the instrument's pitch, unlike, for example, with the Western accordion or the blues harp. In this study, a machine learning model implemented in the COMSAR framework (https://github.com/ifsm) was used to investigate the timbre c

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