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Practical physics (1922)

Millikan, Robert Andrews, Gale, Henry Gordon · Boston : Ginn and Co. · leaf 406

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different pipe foreach note, but the flute, piccolo,and fife are made to produce awhole series of notes, either byblowing overtones or by open-ing holes in the tube, — an oper-ation which is equivalent tocutting the tube off at the hole.Although important orchestralinstruments, the flute and pic-… … 354 PKOPERTIES OF MUSICAL SOUNDS 416. Vibrating reed instruments. In reed iustruiueuts the vibratingair jet is replaced by a vibrating reed, or tongue, wJaich opens and closes,at absolutely regular intervals, an opening against whichthe performer is directing a current of air. In the clari-net, the…

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