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Piano hammers and drumsticks produce repeated impacts creating non-linearity

Piano hammers and drumsticks produce repeated impacts creating non-linearity

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Sep 20, 20261 min read

Piano hammers and drumsticks produce repeated impacts creating non-linearity

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  • Piano hammers rebound and strike strings multiple times per note (similarity 0.86)
  • A pianoforte with raised dampers can physically re-echo sung vowels via sympathetic resonance (similarity 0.85)
  • Hard reeds fix pitch, freeing resonators to shape only harmonics (similarity 0.84)
  • Piano hammers strike strings two to three times per keypress (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 0.82)
  • A strictly periodic tone can still be perceived as two distinct notes (similarity 0.82)
  • Reed material and support determine its harmonic content (similarity 0.80)
  • Piano hammers strike strings at a point avoiding all low-partial nodes (similarity 0.80)
  • Tenors need not tune their tracts because their pitch-to-formant ratio stays high (similarity 0.80)
  • Even steady-state musical notes vary in amplitude envelope over time. (similarity 0.80)
  • Flute playing frequencies are impedance minima; trumpet’s are maxima (similarity 0.80)
  • Only the octave stays perfectly in-tune in equal temperament (similarity 0.80)
  • Percussion bars are shaped to tune their modes toward harmonic ratios (similarity 0.80)
  • A flue pipe’s sound arises from air passing a slit and striking a wedge (similarity 0.79)

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  • A capella groups can adopt just intonation, causing overall pitch to drift through keys
  • A flue pipe's sound arises from air passing a slit and striking a wedge
  • A pianoforte with raised dampers can physically re-echo sung vowels via sympathetic resonance
  • A scale built from pure major-triad intervals yields the just diatonic scale.
  • A strictly periodic tone can still be perceived as two distinct notes
  • Flute playing frequencies are impedance minima; trumpet's are maxima
  • Hard reeds fix pitch, freeing resonators to shape only harmonics
  • Horns and boundaries both concentrate sound into restricted solid angles
  • No keyboard tuning can make every key sound justly intonated
  • Piano hammers strike strings two to three times per keypress
  • Reed material and support determine its harmonic content
  • Vibrato produces tremolo when harmonics sweep across resonant peaks