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Wind Instrument Acoustics (2D)

Pick a cylindrical (clarinet-style) or conical (oboe-style) bore, toggle tone holes to shorten the resonant air column, and watch the standing-wave pressure pattern and fundamental frequency update live for the current fingering.

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Pick a cylindrical (clarinet-style) or conical (oboe-style) bore and toggle the six tone holes to finger a note: the first open hole from the mouthpiece sets the effective air-column length, the standing pressure wave redraws for that fingering, and the fundamental frequency and harmonic series update live.

⚙ Under the hood

A 2D wind-instrument bore simulator where opening a tone hole moves the effective open end from the bell to that hole, shortening the resonant air column; a cylindrical bore supports odd harmonics only while a conical bore supports the full harmonic series, matching real clarinet vs. oboe/saxophone overblowing behavior.

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2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install

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