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Musical instruments are designed to produce relatively pure sound waves with large amplitudes. There are several different approaches:
Let's look at this last mechanism in some detail ...
Now, on to some more general properties of sound waves in air.
What happens if two instruments play simultaneously, but don't QUITE produce the same frequency?
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