Vibrato produces tremolo when harmonics sweep across resonant peaks
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- A pianoforte with raised dampers can physically re-echo sung vowels via sympathetic resonance (similarity 0.86)
- Only the octave stays perfectly in-tune in equal temperament (similarity 0.84)
- Hard reeds fix pitch, freeing resonators to shape only harmonics (similarity 0.84)
- Piano hammers and drumsticks produce repeated impacts creating non-linearity (similarity 0.84)
- Upper harmonics swing more in frequency than lower ones during vibrato (similarity 0.83)
- No keyboard tuning can make every key sound justly intonated (similarity 0.82)
- Vibrato swings upper harmonics more widely than lower ones on a linear frequency scale. (similarity 0.82)
- Vibrato modulates frequency while tremolo modulates amplitude (similarity 0.82)
- Instrument behavior emerges from a shared set of physical mechanisms (similarity 0.82)
- Adding soft noise can make music subjectively sound more brilliant (similarity 0.82)
- A strictly periodic tone can still be perceived as two distinct notes (similarity 0.82)
- Percussion bars are shaped to tune their modes toward harmonic ratios (similarity 0.81)
- Delays too short for echoes still audibly alter timbre through spectral combs (similarity 0.81)
- Flute playing frequencies are impedance minima; trumpet’s are maxima (similarity 0.81)
- Musical scales universally favor intervals with small integer frequency ratios (similarity 0.81)