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Help! Need physicist or meteorologist

Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2024-02-05 07:08

I play "the plastic reeds" on a small opening mouthpiece with a relatively short lay. I have become aware of how badly my playing is affected by LOW air pressure or rather negative differential per hour, particularly when the relative humidity is LOW.

I am really interested in WHY there would be such a correlation rather than the problem itself. The interweb tells me that humidity actually makes air LESS dense. So why would MORE humidity seem to help me (which it does!)? The explanation for the lower density is that when molecules of water replace the space usually taken up by nitrogen and oxygen molecules, the water molecules are actually lighter. But if lower air pressure (or lowerING air pressure) is bad for me (the reeds need to be softer), then why wouldn't lower humidity be better?

Can it be that even though water vapor is LESS DENSE it still represents something "solid" that helps wag the reed?

Any brain storming would be helpful.

............Paul Aviles (caught in a lower pressure zone)

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