Greetings fellow free reed enthusiasts,
In another thread, I made the following suggestion, and perhaps it's worth including it in its own thread.
In the above, E is Young's Modulus, a is tongue thickness, and Rho is material density. The simplest example would be a tongue with constant cross section vs. axial length: no taper and no profiling. I believe the criteria here apply also to cases of taper and profiling, as long as their axial dependencies are the same for both tongues, but I'd first like to look at the corresponding solution to the wave equation before asserting that here.
Best regards,
Tom
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