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From: Michael Carley
Date: Wed, 02 Oct 1996 19:19:18 BST
Subject: Re: CX-12 & materials

Vern quotes a professor of music who says (re the cornet)

> "Wall vibrations are present and can be felt, but they should not be expected
> to radiate enough sound to affect the quality of that normally radiated by
> the instrument, or to vibrate sufficiently to affect the internal standing
> wave. Hence we should not expect the material to have any influence on
> tone."

The problem is that harp cover plates are not nearly as rigid
as a cornet body so they could well vibrate enough to radiate
sound.

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Viscous fluids turn about in perfect synchronicity,
Shed from off a trailing edge in thin sheets of vorticity
Michael Carley, Mech. Eng., TCD, IRELAND. m.carl~eoleo.mme.tcd.ie
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