On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 02:16:26PM +0000, David Cantrell wrote:
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> Now consider that music is *not* just pure tones. A musical note produced
> on a violin sounds different to the same note on an oboe because the
> instruments produce different harmonics and mix different quantities of
> those harmonics together. Nigh-on all of those harmonics are at
> frequencies way above the frequency of the 'pure' tone.
I'd argue that one cannot hear these harmonics and that a 16kHz square wave
is going to sound the same as a 16kHz sine wave. IIRC, the ear effectively
splits the sounds into frequency bands much like a FFT, and only has sensors
across the 20Hz-15kHz range.
