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      D#5 | 
      
    
 
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       Fingering  Acoustic schematic  Non-specialist introduction 
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This fingering is comparable to that for D#4 except for the open register hole. This creates a pressure node (or flow antinode) at the midpoint of the pipe, and thus allows D#5 but not D#4. Compared with the D#4 impedance spectrum, the low frequency minima are less deep, and at considerably higher frequency.
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