Re: Singing pipes

["Richard L. Bowman" <rbowman@bridgewater.edu>]

On Wed, 19 Mar 1997, George Spagna wrote:

> BTW a good lab exercise is to obtain a power spectrum of the pipe  -  when
> we do it the dominant (loudest) frequency is not the fundamental but the
> first overtone.  Anyone with insights why that mode should be easier to excite?

I have not done this experimentally, but my guess is that it depends upon
the length of pipe. For some pipes the turbulence around the wire mesh
will cause its most efficient oscilations at the fundamental and for
others it will be at an overtone. Does the size of the holes in the mesh
effect which frequency is most efficiently expressed?

Richard Bowman
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