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A cylindrical pipe (a flute, a marimba resonator, an automobile exhaust pipe) filled with ordinary air is a system that shows standing waves. If both ends of the pipe are open, the boundary conditions insist that the pressure at the open end is zero. Zero means that it is not overpressure (positive); it is not underpressure (negative); it is ordinary atmospheric pressure (zero).
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Hartmann, W.M. (2013). Standing Waves in Pipes. In: Principles of Musical Acoustics. Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6786-1_8
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