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Physics of Music
Acoustical Physics
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Physics
Undergraduate 1
03/13/2011

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the degree to which the frequencies of overtones depart from whole number multiples of the fundamental frequency
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Inharmonicity
Term
steel wire is covered byh winding brass or copper wire over it. increases mass w/o adding stiffness
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overwound
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if the cange in the pattern of a stiumlus is fast enough the ear will hear a sound of this frequency even though no such frequency is present in original stimulus
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periodicity pitch
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the ear generally hears tones as having a fundamental frequency even though there is no actualy vibration of that frequency. in complex tones in musical instruments may be artifically built up out of harmonics but with the fundamental omitted.
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Missing Fundamental
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81/80
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syntonic comma
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