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Re: Piano Tuning Schools

🔗Robert Walker <robertwalker@ntlworld.com>

10/5/2002 7:02:54 AM

H Pauline,

Thanks for the correction - interesting that harmonics too high
to be heard can still affect the quality of the note isn't it...

Robert

> > High notes don't have much variety in timbre because the
> > timbre depends on the component frequencies of the note
> > - and if a note is high in pitch, the higher component frequencies
> > are too high to be audible.
> >
...
> Good post! Unfortunately, most analog electronic organs made their
> high-pirched stops with hardly any harmonics. A big mistake. As the harmonics
> not heard affect those that are, not only in a given stop, but for the rest
> of the sound played together.