Abstract
The Asian free reed wind instruments typically employ a free reed strongly coupled to a pipe resonator. In these reed-pipes the same reed often operates on both directions of airflow and behaves as a blown-open or outward striking reed, with playing frequency above both the resonant frequency of the pipe and the natural frequency of the reed. The Asian instruments were known in Europe when the Western free reed instruments were developed about 200 years ago, but in the European instruments a free reed of fundamentally different design was used. This paper summarizes the important acoustical properties of the Asian free reed mouth organs, contrasting them with the free reed instruments of European origin. Instruments considered include the khaen and other free reed mouth organs with multiple pipes as well as instruments consisting of a single free reed pipe in which the effective acoustical length is varied by the use of tone holes. Acoustical measurements made on these instruments include studies of reed ...
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