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A pianoforte with raised dampers can physically re-echo sung vowels via sympathetic resonance

A pianoforte with raised dampers can physically re-echo sung vowels via sympathetic resonance

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Sep 20, 20261 min read

A pianoforte with raised dampers can physically re-echo sung vowels via sympathetic resonance

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  • A flue pipe's sound arises from air passing a slit and striking a wedge
  • A nerve-fiber threshold near 0.5 yields the most reliable pitch periodicity estimates
  • A singer's formant boosts a distinct energy band near 2.4-3.5 kHz
  • A strictly periodic tone can still be perceived as two distinct notes
  • A time delay of a reflection imprints a comb of enhanced and suppressed frequencies
  • Absolute pitch precision is roughly ten times that of trained relative-pitch listeners
  • Acoustic increments are more salient than decrements in complex stimuli
  • Adding soft noise can make music subjectively sound more brilliant
  • Bass-rich music venues deliberately boost low-frequency reverberation to add warmth and lift weak fundamentals
  • Delays too short for echoes still audibly alter timbre through spectral combs
  • Exaggerated pitch contours assist speech intelligibility in noisy settings
  • Flute playing frequencies are impedance minima; trumpet's are maxima
  • Hard reeds fix pitch, freeing resonators to shape only harmonics
  • Impedance mismatch determines whether a sound pulse reflects or passes
  • No keyboard tuning can make every key sound justly intonated
  • Noncoincident resonances yield smoother speaker response than spherical shapes
  • Only the octave stays perfectly in-tune in equal temperament
  • Oral cavity pressure always exceeds mouthpiece pressure while playing wind instruments
  • Piano hammers and drumsticks produce repeated impacts creating non-linearity
  • Piano strings and soundboards can exchange energy producing audible loudness shimmer
  • Pitch shifting can alter pitch without changing spectral character.
  • Raising a tone's level lowers low-frequency pitch but raises high-frequency pitch
  • Selected-frequency electronic enhancement improved Berlin opera acoustics.
  • Spherical enclosures give the smoothest loudspeaker frequency response
  • Sympathetic resonance theory of hearing dates to Aristotle about 350 BCE
  • The ear substitutes a real partial for a just-damped piano tone
  • The mel scale conflicts with musical logarithmic scales but remains useful in technical applications
  • Trumpet valves combine with lip synchronization to expand pitch range
  • Vibrato produces tremolo when harmonics sweep across resonant peaks
  • Vocal tract sound transmission is governed by cross-sectional area
  • Warmth in a sound can be produced by two opposite spectral manipulations