Cabbage, You say, "However, there is no effect corresponding to this in a brass instrument. This is because energy is being fed into the instrument at the fundamental frequency, so responses at any frequency which is not a multiple will be damped out. There are inharmonicities present in the sound of a brass instrument, but they are much less important than the inharmoncities in a piano."
I have questions about this statement. The horn itself is fairly linear in sound response, if not in shape. Therefore, any partials in the sound must be present in the sound generator, the lips, which are nonlinear. Could not these nonlinearities cause inharmoncities in the partials? Is the smile embouchure discouraged because a smile is nonlinear? Herb Foster _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
