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From: philipl@bronze.UUCP (Philip Lantz)
Newsgroups: net.physics
Subject: Re: music harmony
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Date: Wed, 31-Aug-83 12:16:34 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 31 12:16:34 1983
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It would seem that since phase relations play an important role in
shaping the composite waveform of a sound, they would have an effect
on the way the sound is heard, but it ain't so.  I have experimented
with a waveform generator, with a number of oscillators, changing
the relative amplitudes and phases of the different frequencies.
Changing the relative amplitudes is very audible, and changing the
relative phases is completely inaudible, though the waveform as
seen on an oscilloscope may be completely different.

Philip Lantz
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