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Timbre depends on profile of instrument.

example:

Oboe and Sax are both conical

reed instruments but

Sax has : (see picture next slide)

• large opening angle, large bell

-> lower freq cutoff

• large tone holes of Sax

loud! strong low partials

Oboe has:

• small opening angle, small bell

-> high freq cutoff

• small tone holes

soft,

A3b

B3b

Soprano Sax

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