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ORGAN pipes have long been a favourite theme for the musician and for the physicist, but they are very far from being the simple structures idealized in the text-books. One source of complication in the actual organ pipe is the behaviour of the air stream at the mouth, which results, for example, in the note produced by blowing in the normal manner being higher in pitch than the natural note of the pipe considered as a resonator.
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BROWN, G. Organ Pipes and Edge Tones. Nature 141, 11–13 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141011a0
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