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If the temperature goes up so goes the pitch (frequency) for woodwinds, because the speed of sound goes up with temperature.

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How does the temperature affect the frequency of an organ pipe?

A change in temperature will result in a change in the speed of sound. The frequency of a flute organ pipe is proportional to the speed of sound. For example, an increase in temperature will cause an increase in the speed of sound, and hence the pitch of the pipe will go up. A change of about 4oC will cause a change in the pipe's sound frequency of about 1%. That compares with a change of 6% between adjacent notes on the keyboard. Hence such a change would be significant.The same effect occurs for the woodwind and brass instruments.


Does the speed of sound in water change with a temperature change?

yes it is changing. It's increasing with the temperature.


Is it the speed or the size of the vibration that changes the pitch of a sound?

Neither. Speed of sound waves doesn't change unless there is a change in the medium (substance through which the wave moves). the size of the vibration determines how loud the sound is. the length of the vibration is what determines the pitch.


How does the pitch of a sound affect its speed?

Pitch of sound in air does not affect the speed of sound.The speed of sound in air is also not affected by atmospheric pressure.Temperature does affect the speed of sound in air.Similar statements are not true for liquids or solids. It stops being true for gasses when pressure and temperature are near the point that the gas will liquify.


What property of sound is affected by change in air temperature?

The speed, and therefore also the wavelength (for sound of a given frequency), are affected by temperature.

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What causes pitch to change?

Every sound vibrates with a particular fundamental frequency. When you change the wavelength of a sound, you change the pitch of a sound.


Does the temperature of water affect the pitch of sound?

Presumably you mean sound traveling through water. Temperature affects the density of water, therefore the speed of sound in water, and pitch is frequency, so yes, temperature affects pitch.


How do you change the pitch of a sound?

You have to amplify the sound.


What could an observable change in sounds when the frequency change?

The so-called pitch of the sound would change. A sound with a higher frequency is said to have a higher pitch.


How you change the pitch of the sound?

Change the frequency.


How can you change Pitch of sound?

Change the frequency.


How does the temperature affect the frequency of an organ pipe?

A change in temperature will result in a change in the speed of sound. The frequency of a flute organ pipe is proportional to the speed of sound. For example, an increase in temperature will cause an increase in the speed of sound, and hence the pitch of the pipe will go up. A change of about 4oC will cause a change in the pipe's sound frequency of about 1%. That compares with a change of 6% between adjacent notes on the keyboard. Hence such a change would be significant.The same effect occurs for the woodwind and brass instruments.


Does temperature affect an electric guitar's sound?

If the temperature goes up, the pitch of the sound goes up too.


When does the pitch of sound change?

When the frequency of the vibrations that produce the sound change. Higher frequencies -> higher pitch. OR if the source of the sound is moving towards or away from you -> Doppler effect.


When you change the pitch of a sound what change in sound wave?

In sounds with higher pitches, the compressions that make up the sound are closer together; when the pitch is lower, they are farther apart. The wavelength of a sound, which is the distance from one compression to the next, is the speed of sound divided by the sound's frequency (pitch).


What cause the pitch of a sound to change?

The frequency of the vibrations. Sound frequencies are directly related to the perceived pitch.


What makes change?

To make sound frequency change alter the pitch.