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Re: Register designations?

Author: Dee
Date: 2005-06-10 01:00

There are several geometries for wind instruments each of which has certain acoustical properties.

Clarinet - acts like a cylinder with one end closed.

Flute - acts like a cylinder with both ends open.

Oboe and sax - act like cones.

Flutes, oboes, and saxes can sound both even and odd harmonics.

Cylinders closed on one end can only sound odd harmonics. Note that organ pipes are also cylinders with one end closed. In some ways the clarinet sound is organ like. A clarinet choir will often make a person think of organs.

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