ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2021
Airflow and Air Velocity Measurements While Playing Wind Instruments, with Respect to Risk Assessment of a SARS-CoV-2 Infection.
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- Experimental data on aerosols exhaled into the environment from different wind musical instruments.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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- Natural and socio-environmental factors in the transmission of COVID-19: a comprehensive analysis of epidemiology and mechanisms.BMC public health · 2024Review
- A coupled experimental and statistical approach for an assessment of SARS-CoV-2 infection risk at indoor event locations.BMC public health · 2023Article
- Airborne infections related to virus aerosol contamination at indoor cultural venues: Recommendations on how to minimize.Public health challenges · 2023Review
- SARS-CoV-2 infections in professional orchestra and choir musicians-a prospective cohort study.European journal of epidemiology · 2022Article
- Monitoring SARS-CoV-2 in air and on surfaces and estimating infection risk in buildings and buses on a university campus.Journal of exposure science & environmental epidemiology · 2022Article
- Aerosol emission from playing wind instruments and related COVID-19 infection risk during music performance.Scientific reports · 2022Article
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Abstract
Due to airborne transmission of the coronavirus, the question arose as to how high the risk of spreading infectious particles can be while playing a wind instrument. To examine this question and to help clarify the possible risk, we analyzed 14 wind instruments, first qualitatively by making airflows visible while playing, and second quantitatively by measuring air velocity at three distances (1, 1.5, 2 m) in the direction of the instruments' bells. Measurements took place with wind instrumentalists of the Bamberg Symphony in their concert hall. Our findings highlight that while playing, no airflows escaping from any of the wind instruments-from the bell with brass instruments or from the mouthpiece, keyholes or bell with woodwinds-were measurable beyond a distance of 1.5 m, regardless of volume, pitch or what was played. With that, air velocity while playing corresponded to the usual value of 1 m/s in hall-like rooms. For air-jet woodwinds, alto flute and piccolo, significant air movements were seen close to the mouthpiece, which escaped directly into the room.
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