Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!mordor!joyce!ames!ucsd!rutgers!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!cadre!pitt!cisunx!ejkst From: ejkst@cisunx.UUCP (Eric J. Kennedy) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: 2 More Questions Message-ID: <12459@cisunx.UUCP> Date: 12 Sep 88 14:17:05 GMT References: <8809071942.AA05026@cory.Berkeley.EDU> Reply-To: ejkst@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu (Eric J. Kennedy) Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh, Comp & Info Sys Lines: 16 In article kevin@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Kevin Clague) writes: >To further complicate the issue, some instruments only sound on the >odd harmonics (like an oboe), and a trombone does not even produce >the fundamental! So..... it is not a simple thing. And many percussion instruments, like drums, have harmonics that are fractional increments of the fundamental. This will create a real mess! I think timpani don't even produce the fundamental, but rather start at something like 1.53!! [Source: Some Scientific American article from a few years back. Email me if you want a ref.] -- ------------ Eric Kennedy ejkst@cisunx.UUCP