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Story of the Flute
The idea that the material used affects the tone has been questioned by Lavignac. M. Victor Mahillon recently experimented with a wooden and a brass trumpet, and he declares that the tone of each is identical—the wood quite as "brassy" as the genuine article. Sax tried similar experiments with a brass clarinet with the like result. This certainly upsets all previous theories, and is well deserving of further investigation. The truth would appear to be that the tone quality does not depend so much on the material used (although it has a certain amount of influence on it) as upon the form of the instrument itself.
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