Have you ever blown across a glass bottle? If so, you’ve played one of these instruments! Pipe organs are also closed-end air instruments because one end is sealed. The difference in sealing one end affects the types of frequencies that the instrument can create because the standing wave pattern that is created is from the incident (incoming) waves interfering with the reflected waves bouncing back when they hit the sealed end of the instrument.

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