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The physical process by which sound moves through a medium such as air molecules for example, involves vibrations wherein compressions and de-compressions (rarefactions) are manifest and transport the wave energy through the medium while leaving the air molecules more or less in the same place afterwards. The concept should generally be understood to be not so much the gross motion of particles from source to destination, as rather the motion of the wave energy itself from the source. As such it would be better to say that air particles vibrating quickly or with a higher frequency are perceived as a higher note or pitch, and more slow vibrations indicative of a lower tone or pitch.

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