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| - | The pathetic lips are a double reed instrument that have the direction of their reeds reversed. The double lamell reed is forced closed like other doubled reeds but the act of closing it is from air flowing though a tube first and flows out across the base of reeds rather than air flowing in the tips and out the back of the reed into the instrument body. \\ | + | The pathetic lips are a double |
| (on a side note I have not found a good terminology for this phenomena just yet). \\ | (on a side note I have not found a good terminology for this phenomena just yet). \\ | ||
| This type of reed can be described as two individual parallel lamells (like tines of a kalimba), placed a short distance apart and when air flows between them they are forced to draw inward by the negative air pressure and smack into one another, at which point the air flow is cut off and the reeds return to their original position and the cycle repeats. | This type of reed can be described as two individual parallel lamells (like tines of a kalimba), placed a short distance apart and when air flows between them they are forced to draw inward by the negative air pressure and smack into one another, at which point the air flow is cut off and the reeds return to their original position and the cycle repeats. | ||
| Pitch is determined by the length and tension of the two lamells and not by the length of the tube. \\ | Pitch is determined by the length and tension of the two lamells and not by the length of the tube. \\ | ||
| - | This set should be considered one piece, because it is dependent on both parts in the system to oscillate. If there was only one free floating reed it would not response to airflow in the manner that these do and if there was one damped side the system flows more like that of a single lamell reed, and also does not respond to the reversed duration of the air in the same manner. | + | This set should be considered one mechanism, because it is dependent on both parts in the system to oscillate. If there was only one free floating reed it would not response to airflow in the manner that these do and if there was one damped side the system flows more like that of a single lamell reed, and also does not respond to the reversed duration of the air in the same manner. |
| I have began to call these instruments pathetic lips, in reference to what is developing as a set of unrelated instruments all called pathetic. In this context the word pathetic is being used to mean weak-sounding, | I have began to call these instruments pathetic lips, in reference to what is developing as a set of unrelated instruments all called pathetic. In this context the word pathetic is being used to mean weak-sounding, | ||
