No such luck in many cases.
While they are figuring out what they did wrong at CERN with their faster than light results, i have stumbled into something that should have long ago been dealt with.
While in the process of tuning up some instruments in a new tuning, i had some tubes that are to become resonators that i decided to play with a bit on a set of reeds tuned to the same tuning. Terumi suggested playing with open resonators so i took the caps off and found i could augment the sound of a reed and use my hand to open and close to play with the sound. The problem was that the resonators were resonating a pitch a whole tone or more lower than what all the the theoretical measurements have been telling me.
I checked my answers with others who concluded that what i had was in the the range of what they had. I asked on the reed organ list if anyone there had such a thing happen and one suggested that it was the cavity that held the reed that jointly made a lower resonator. This made total sense to me and assumed it was correct but i thought i could check it by trying it against the second set of reeds which has a much shallower cavity. the result was the same.
One of the things i did to test was to play the pitch it should be along with the lower pitch.
In all cases it is the lower pitch that sounded much louder.
It appears i am not the first to notice this. i got an message from Simon Buser, a builder and Organist in Germany who said,
"The same system of reeds 2
semitones higher than the resonators I found in Organ Clarinets of
Aeolian-Skinner. Seems to be the usual way to handle this phenomena: by
experience, not by calculation, I suppose."
My own theory at the moments is that since they are suction reeds not blowing reeds that the suction lowers the air pressure. But still have to figure out a way to test this.
Oh yes BTW with a vibraphone bar it works as expected.
Anyway one can have some musical fun with this as can be heard here. [Might take a minute to load]. The top pitch is the theoretical one and the lower is the one that works
