Pure tones sound soft and pleasant but lack power
Evidence
- Simple tones, like those of tuning forks applied to resonance chambers and wide stopped organ pipes, have a very soft, pleasant sound, free from all roughness but wanting in power and dull at low pitches. — David M. Howard, Jamie Angus, Acoustics and Psychoacoustics, 1493
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Pure tones alone cannot sustain musical interest — David Howard, Jamie Angus, coustics and Psychoacoustics, 1627