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Conical (bore)

internal diameter, increasing or decreasing downwards (i.e. counting from the stock)

Conique (Perce ~); Konisch (i.e. Konische Bohrung); Cónica (Sección ~).

Identical types: 4
Bore

Conical pipes have a full range of overtones and can be overblown; They always sound 1 octave higher than a cylindrical pipe of the same length.

Tapered (bore)


Sources

Meer, John Henry van der: Typologie der Sackpfeife. In: Anz. Germ. Nationalmus. (Nürnberg, 1964), p.124.

Personal communication

Paul Beekhuizen (Den Haag, Nov. 2001).