A clarinet is an instrument which acts like an  "open-closed" tube. Suppose you play a note which is the fundamental of the instrument (with all holes closed) which is at 435 Hz. What is the frequency of the next harmonic you can play?
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The next is the octave, or 870hz
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The resonant frequencies for a pipe closed at one end is given by\n\nf = n*V/(4*L)\n\nwhere V is the speed of sound, L is the length of the pipe, and n is an odd integer.\n\nFor your case\n\nf1 = n1*V/(4*L)\nf2 = n2*V/(4*L) = (n1+2)*V/(4*L)\n\nf2 - f1 = 2*V/(4*L) = V/(2*L)\n\nSolving for L\n\nL = V/(2*(f2-f1))\n\nL = (340 m/s)/(2*100 Hz) = 340/200 m = 1.7 m\n\nwhere f1 and f2 were chosen to be 550 Hz and 650 Hz, respectively.
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The same way you blow air through a trumpet
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If you can measure the *frequency*, you know the wavelength.\n(As the wavelength is just the frequency divided by the speed of sound.)  I found a calculator that does this for you:\nhttp://www.sengpielaudio.com/calculator-wavelength.htm\n\nIdeally you would get an oscilloscope to measure the frequency.\n\nIf you don't have access to one, if you have a guitar tuner, you could measure the frequency (the tuner will tell you the pitch, say A#, and you can look up the frequency of that pitch in a music book).\n\nOr if you have a bunch of tuning forks or a pitch pipe, you could get an approximation.\n\nIf you have an ocilloscope, don't forget to get the precise speed of sound at your elevation (sound travels a bit faster at sea level, than if you live in, say, Denver).  (Note that the calculator link above gives you a place to enter the speed of sound where you live.)  If you're using a guitar tuner or tuning forks, they are only approximations anyway, so the exact speed of sound for your elevation won't make a difference.  \n\nP.S.  I found a reference to a sound analyzer you can get for your computer!  The software is free, but it needs a soundcard in your computer (which you probably have).  It uses the information from a microphone in your computer to give you the frequency and wavelength of the musical note.  It's kinda cheating if this is for a science-fair project ... but maybe this is what you want.\nhttp://www.relisoft.com/Freeware/freq.html
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I am not a harpist, but I am a musician.  My primary instrument is the alto sax, but I have played the bari for a jazz band I was in for three years.  I also play clarinet, French horn, flute, percussion (snare drum mostly, some African drums such as boba and djembe), oboe, violin, cello, piano, and dulcimer.  However, I have not continued my studies into college, and certainly not now as a medical student.  I would like to join a small jazz group when I get settled with a job and such...that won't be for a couple of years though.
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My grandfather, and some uncles played the French Harp back in West Virgina when I was a little girl. In California, they call it a harmonica.  I even have my own, but, I can't play it well.
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I'm assuming these pipes are going to work like organ pipes and the resonant frequency of each will be inversely proportional to its length:\n\nTo cover 1 octave, the first (lowest note) pipe will be twice as long as the last (highest note) pipe.  There will be 13 pipes total including the 1st and last.  To get the length of the 12th pipe, multiply the length of the 13th pipe (the shortest) by the 12th root of 2.0\nDo the same for each of the pipes in order, making sure any given pipe is 2^(1/12) as long as the shorter one next to it.  This can all be done on paper beforehand and result in a list of exactly how long to cut each pipe.\nEach pipe will sound a note which is 1/2 step different from its neighbor.
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The Orchestra is lead by the conductor who sets the speed, counts in the players and sets the volume using the baton.\nFor example. Counting 2 bars before the music starts. 1- 2- 3- 4, 2- 2- 3- 4 or if it is a waltz tempo 1-2-3, 2-2-3, Then the music starts with everyone starting at exactly the same time. They move the baton lower if she wants us to play quieter and uses smaller movements. Or bigger and higher movements for louder playing. How fast she moves the baton is how fast to play and if she changes her speed so do you. She uses it to signal for the players to stop. She has the score. It has every ones part on it I believe one after the other with each part on a separate line. I don't know the order but it would be something like this. Clarinet line 1 Saxophone line 2 Trumpet line 3 and so on. \nThey are sometimes called a maestro. They work with all the instruments to make the music sound good providing instruction to specific people or groups.  If there is one the lead or 1st violin is the one they work most closely with.
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Trumpet sounds a blare. String instuments like a guitar reverberate when strumed. Drums rat a tat tat. When refering to sax its mellow jazz tones. Flutes are fanciful airy toots and whistles. Oboes make deeper hollow tones. Does that help?
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If your talking about the "Baroque Style."  You can't use parallel fifths, you cant use parallel octaves, and you cant cross voices.  As for V4/3 I believe that is a suspension.
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I am uncertain, but I believe that the strings on a harp would have to oscillate via a certain mode corresponding to A*sin(n*pi) where n determines the mode of oscillation.  I would have to spend a lot more time though to determine the tension distribution on an actual harp though.
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5 strings I think. Open tuned. It's a loud instrument. I think it's easier to play than it looks and sounds, due to the open tuning. Good luck!
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Wave length and frequency are inversions.\n\nThe average speed of sound is 343 meters per second.\n\nA 1 meter wavelength then would be a frequency of 1/343 hertz.\n\nA tube will produce most easily a wavelength equal to it's length.  It can also produce a wave length of twice it's length.\n\nAll other tones will be some division of these lengths.\n\nA 12 meter tube would produce wave lengths of 24m (twice the tube) 12m (equal), 6m (half), 4m (a third), 3m (a quarter), 2m (a sixth) etc.  They will all will be completely divisible into the tube.\n\nThat makes frequencies of 12/343 Hz, etc.
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Because it is full of chromatic notes.\n\nChromatic notes are notes outside a key or mode. \n\nFor example, in the key of C major, notes that are diatonic (as opposed to chromatic) are C D E F G A & B. Chromatic notes would be C# D# F# G# & A#.\n\nIf you play the diatonic notes and chromatic notes in a scale, you would get a chromatic scale.\n\nIn music, chromatic doesn't refer to color. \n\nIf you are talking about tone color, tone color is the sound a particular instrument (a piano has a different sound from a sax).\n\nIn the chromatic scale, we are dealing with pitches, not the instrument's sound.
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If it is open on both ends, the harmonic frequencies are:\n\nf=nv/2L\n\nwhere n is the harmonic number (1st, 2nd, etc), v is the speed of sound in air (~343 m/s), and L is the length of the pipe.
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Do you have a favorite song / artist ?\n\nTry to play along- You need to learn how the notes are located.\nTo play a 'Do-Rei-Me' scale you do need to try to bend two of the draw notes in the first 4 holes (#2 and # 3)- for the  complete scale in the first four holes.\nHoles 4-8 require no bending.\nMost harp players learn by ear- but do check out www.harphouse.com\nwww.harmonicamasterclass.com\nKeep trying...
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its brass because its made of brass.  it's not a woodwind because it doesn't have a reed....its just a plain wind instrument because you blow into it