. The Ontario high school physics. is due chiefly to the air columnin the pipe, the reed simply serving to set it in vibration. In Fig. 244 is shown a clarinet. This instrument has holesin the tube which are covered by keys or by the fingers of the pla^^er. The air in the tube is put in vibration by means of a reed made of cane shown in Fig. 246. The reed is very flexible,_ „ ^ and the note Fig. piece of the heard is that of clarinet. The reed R covers the air column, the opennig. not of the this case the reed simplycovers and uncovers theopening in the mouthpiece, being to
. The Ontario high school physics. is due chiefly to the air columnin the pipe, the reed simply serving to set it in vibration. In Fig. 244 is shown a clarinet. This instrument has holesin the tube which are covered by keys or by the fingers of the pla^^er. The air in the tube is put in vibration by means of a reed made of cane shown in Fig. 246. The reed is very flexible,_ „ ^ and the note Fig. piece of the heard is that of clarinet. The reed R covers the air column, the opennig. not of the this case the reed simplycovers and uncovers theopening in the mouthpiece, being too large to pass into theopening. It is called a striking reed, that in the organ(Fig. 245) being a free reed. A reed is used in a similar way in the mouthpiece of theoboe, saxophone and other instruments of that class. In the automobile honk (Fig. 247) a striking reed is is inserted at r, where the flexible tube joins on the brassportion. On pressing the bulb the reed sets in vibration theair column in the brass
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