Physics 288/489: THE PHYSICS OF MUSIC   Fall, 2004

Lecture 13 (10/26)

HOMEWORK #3 DUE IN CLASS

STUDENTS REGISTERED IN PHYSICS 489 MEET NEAR THE END

Blown pipes and flutes: the recorder and the transverse flute.  How oscillations are set up in blown wind instruments.  Fingerholes and the changing of pitch by forcing pressure nodes at certain spots. 

Reading: Hall Chap 12.2, 12.5, 12.6

Music Played:

Georg Frederick Telemann, Recorder Suite in A Minor

Maurice Ravel, Daphnis and Chloe (flute and clarinet viruosity)