At 02:16 am 1/13/99 +0000, James Cameron wrote:
>Mike Morrin wrote:
>> (does the frequency get bigger or smaller when the length gets
>> bigger?).
>
>Smaller.  Larger organ pipes are lower frequency.  There are all sorts
>of standing wave tricks as well according to how the pipe opens at the
>end, if indeed it is open.  To remember, think of a piccolo versus a
>flute.
>
>I did physics of music for a year or so way back when.


so if you have a linear function which has a negative slope, increase the
length enough, and you will get a negative frequency.

  ^
 f|
  |\
  | \
  |  \
  |   \
  |____\____________>
        \          L
         \

I suggest therefore, that it is not a linear function.

regards,

Mike