11.07.2015 Views

THE SCIENCE AND APPLICATIONS OF ACOUSTICS - H. H. Arnold ...

THE SCIENCE AND APPLICATIONS OF ACOUSTICS - H. H. Arnold ...

THE SCIENCE AND APPLICATIONS OF ACOUSTICS - H. H. Arnold ...

SHOW MORE
SHOW LESS
  • No tags were found...

Create successful ePaper yourself

Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.

18.10 Wind Instruments 539Figure 18.25. Sectional views of the open flue pipe (left) and a stopped-flue pipe (right).The recorder and the flageolet can be categorized as instruments of the whistleclass. Each is equipped with a mouthpiece, a fipple hole, and a cylindrical tubebearing a set of fingerholes. The recorder has eight fingerholes plus one thumbholeon the opposite side of the tube to alter the resonant frequency of the air column.Different types of recorders have been constructed ranging in length from 30 cm toalmost 900 cm. The flageolet features a set of four fingerholes plus two thumbholes.The ocarina’s construction differs from that of a flageolet in that its resonatingsystem is a cavity and hole combination, not a pipe. The resonator is coupled tothe air through several holes, including the fipple hole. The resonance frequencyis increased as the number of holes is increased, because the inertance decreaseswith the number of holes. Ocarinas, which may be made of metal, ceramic, orplastic, cover about a range of an octave and a half.The flute illustrated in Figure 18.26 is a cylindrical main tube with a slightlytapered head-joint. One end of the flute is open and the other is closed. The embouchure(blowhole) is located a short distance from the closed end. The holes arecontrolled by closing or opening them in order to vary the resonant frequencies

Hooray! Your file is uploaded and ready to be published.

Saved successfully!

Ooh no, something went wrong!