The bugle has no keys and thus only plays the natural scale (open pipes). The lo

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The bugle has no keys and thus only plays the natural scale (open pipes). The lowest note played on the instruments is not the fundamental but the next higher mode. A) if the lowest note you can play on a bugle is C2, what other notes can you play? B) Some of the overtones do not fit the musical scale. Which ones? The bugle has no keys and thus only plays the natural scale (open pipes). The lowest note played on the instruments is not the fundamental but the next higher mode. A) if the lowest note you can play on a bugle is C2, what other notes can you play? B) Some of the overtones do not fit the musical scale. Which ones?

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Let the fundamental mode frequency be F

Since the bugle don;t have keys, hence it will be only playing the next higher mode which will be 2F

So assuming that the 2F frequency is fundamental frequency, hence other notes which it can play will be with 4F, 6F,8F and so on

it can play C4,,C6,C8,...

b) Since it can only play even frequency modes, hence 3F,5F,7F i.e. C3,C5,C7 can't be played

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