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Wind instruments are made to sound either by blowing a jet of air across some sort of opening, as in whistles, flutes, and flue organ pipes, or by buzzing together the lips or a thin reed and its support, as in trumpets, saxophones or oboes, or indeed as in the human voice. In this chapter, we shall discuss only this second class of sound generators—vibrating reeds—and defer discussion of air jet generators to Chapter 16.
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Fletcher, N.H., Rossing, T.D. (1991). Sound Generation by Reed and Lip Vibrations. In: The Physics of Musical Instruments. Springer Study Edition. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2980-3_13
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