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The pitch of an organ pipe is highest when the pipe is filled with

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The speed of sound in air directly proportional to the square root of its absolute temperature T and the pitch n of an organ pipe is directly proportional to the speed of sound in air : `npropsqrtT`
Hence, on hot summer day, the pitch of an organ pipe is higher than that on day of average temperature.
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