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jeremy
6 minutes
Why Length, Mass and Tension Set the Fundamental Frequency
The explanatory core for pitch. Shorter, lighter, tighter folds cycle faster; longer, heavier, slacker folds cycle slower. Treated as one teachable thing because the three quantities are inseparable terms of a single relationship, exactly as in a vibrating string. This node is the anchor the sex, puberty and ageing nodes all attach to, and the reason a genetic effect on tissue properties is even plausible.