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For Strings
The longer the string, the lower the fundamental frequency and the pitch. The thickness, tightness, and material of the string also matter!
Aerophones
Is there a similar correlation among pipe instruments, for instance, aerophones such as a trumpet or a tuba?
At the open end, air molecules can move a lot In the drawings, you see the curves far apart where the air moves a lot; those positions are called antinodes In between the antinodes, there are places where the molecules dont move much; those positions are called nodes.
At the closed end, molecules dont move much. Nodes exists at the closed end, antinodes at the open end. The nodes are farther apart than in an open pipe, so the wavelength is longer and the pitch is lower than for an open pipe.
The closer the nodes are to each other, the shorter the wavelength of the wave, measured in meters. The top drawing shows the longest wavelength; the bottom one represents the shortest wavelength.
For sound waves, the pitch corresponds to the of the sound wave. Higher frequencies of sound waves are interpreted by our brains as pitches.