[dharma1]

Lots of Karplus-Strong synths still around as Audiounits or VSTi's.

The wind synth was Yamaha VL1 - quite expensive at the time but very expressive. Not sure what happened to the patents on that, but there have been other physically modeled synths since then.

Stefan Bilbao's group at University of Edinburgh is carrying the flag on next-level physical modeling, though I think the funding for the project has come to an end unfortunately.

http://www.ness.music.ed.ac.uk/

There was cool work on physically modeled instruments done in Finland by Vesa Välimäki et al, not sure what the state of that is now.

[projectorlochsa]

Thank you for the comments, couldn't find any newer papers in the subject that advanced the methods.

Yes, it was VL1.