Elements of natural philosophy (Volume 2-3) (1850)
Bartlett, W. H. C. (William Holms Chambers), 1804-1893 · New York : Barnes · leaf 128
h, and held so as to bring the disc just over themouth of the pipe, a note of great clearness and strengthwill be heard. Indeed, a flute may be made to speakperfectly well by holding a vibrating tuning-fork closeto the embouchure, while the fingering proper to thenote of the fork is at the same… … or by introducing a current . Resonance of a . . Fig. 69. pipe produced by of air into it through a small __^ arecd. aperture of a peculiar con-struction called a reedprovided with a tongueor flexible elastic plate whichnearly stops the aperture,and which is alternatelyforced away by the currentof…
Mechanics · Acoustics · Optics
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