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Making a Woodwind instrument

7 For this experiment, you will need;
  • A Cathode Ray Oscilliscope (CRO)
  • A Signal Generator

Connect the CRO and signal generator according to the CRO manual, with the x-axis as the timebase and set the signal generator to produced a 50Hz signal.  Adjust the CRO settings until you can see a well formed sine wave on the screen.  Adjust the frequency of the signal generator.  How and why does the wave change?