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Because the rate of change in the pressure in the air differs: high pitch has a rapid vibration, low pitch a slow vibration.

Humans can usually hear from a low of 20 Hz (cycles per second) to 20,000 Hz.

I'm so old that I do not hear much above 12,000 Hz any more.

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