Re: [Hornlist] Re: Overtones, etc.

2006-06-04 Thread Herbert Foster
If you listened to Cabbage's show of a few weeks ago, there was an example of Tuvan throat singing. Their fundamental tone is what singers call a "fry." It is very rich in harmonics. These harmonics are so close together at the formant frequency of the vocal tract, that you hear a smoothly changing

Re: [Hornlist] Re: Overtones, etc.

2006-06-03 Thread Klaus Bjerre
I have read some of the postings on this thread, and see no reason entering into any personal discussions or even dogfights. My ears can hear single overtones and overtone patterns, even if I cannot write them down like a computerised spectral analysis. Right now I am listening to Grétry, A

Re: [Hornlist] Re: Overtones, etc.

2006-06-03 Thread Eww02
[In case you've lost track of who is who, >> is Marc Gelfo, >>> is Marc Gelfo quoting Steve Freides, and > is Steve replying to Marc.] In a message dated 6/3/2006 7:47:58 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> Steve Freides wrote: >> > It is essentially impossible for a h

RE: [Hornlist] Re: Overtones, etc.

2006-06-03 Thread Steve Freides
Marc Gelfo wrote: > Hey list, I'm doing a compiled response to many things that > were said recently. My background, FWIW, is in cognitive > science, particularly phonolinguistics, and computer science. > I've done a lot of spectrogram reading of both language and > horn -- for about 3 years

[Hornlist] Re: Overtones, etc.

2006-06-03 Thread Marc Gelfo
Hey list, I'm doing a compiled response to many things that were said recently. My background, FWIW, is in cognitive science, particularly phonolinguistics, and computer science. I've done a lot of spectrogram reading of both language and horn -- for about 3 years I've been studying spectrogr