Hard reeds fix pitch, freeing resonators to shape only harmonics
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- Reed material and support determine its harmonic content (similarity 0.87)
- Reed instruments can use fractional-length resonators because reeds fix the fundamental frequency (similarity 0.85)
- Piano hammers and drumsticks produce repeated impacts creating non-linearity (similarity 0.84)
- Tenors need not tune their tracts because their pitch-to-formant ratio stays high (similarity 0.84)
- A pianoforte with raised dampers can physically re-echo sung vowels via sympathetic resonance (similarity 0.84)
- Vibrato produces tremolo when harmonics sweep across resonant peaks (similarity 0.84)
- No keyboard tuning can make every key sound justly intonated (similarity 0.83)
- Only the octave stays perfectly in-tune in equal temperament (similarity 0.82)
- Absolute pitch precision is roughly ten times that of trained relative-pitch listeners (similarity 0.81)
- A strictly periodic tone can still be perceived as two distinct notes (similarity 0.81)
- Free reeds produce fewer high harmonics because airflow never fully stops (similarity 0.81)
- Percussion bars are shaped to tune their modes toward harmonic ratios (similarity 0.80)
- Adding soft noise can make music subjectively sound more brilliant (similarity 0.80)
- Musical instrument acoustics reduce to a source-modifier model (similarity 0.80)
- Raising a tone’s level lowers low-frequency pitch but raises high-frequency pitch (similarity 0.80)