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From: Michael Carley
Date: Fri, 04 Oct 1996 11:02:16 BST
Subject: Re: Reed materials (fwd)

> Vern
> Consider two reeds of different materials having different moduli of
> elasticity and tuned to the same pitch. The differences in material
> properties can be compensated by differences in thickness so that the "feel"
> to the player is the same.

Not really. If it were a simple system like a mass on
a spring that might be true but it's not. If you change
the thickness (or length or whatever) and keep the same
natural frequencies (there is more than one remember)
then the other properties of the system have changed.
The aerodynamics are different, the reed clearances are
different, the player notices a difference.

- --
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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