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The pitch of sound decreases and the speed of sound will increase. These effects are because of the increased density of the medium.

This applies to most materials: only in rare occasions does the density of a material decrease with a decrease in temperature (iron, when it changes temperature at some points, for example), resulting in the opposite effect (ask for the opposite).

If the temperature goes down, the pitch of woodwind instruments go down too, but the pitch of string instruments go up.

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