Klarinet Archive - Posting 000488.txt from 2000/08

From: les debusk <sflane@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] inharmonic (anharmonic) vs. decay vs periodic vs recipe
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 17:22:34 -0400

Maybe this will help a little...
http://phy.mtu.edu/faculty/info/suits/clarinet.html
les.d.

Tony Pay wrote:

> On Thu, 17 Aug 2000 14:51:34 -0500, cpaok@-----.net said:
>
> > I am really confused now with the terminology:
> >
> > IN-harmonic AN-harmonic EN-harmonic
> >
> > Do all of these words have *separate* meanings? OR, is there a
> > misspelling present? Does Webster's (or whatever equivalent
> > dictionary) allow for different (yet correct) spellings.
>
> As I explained in the posts, I am using
>
> Harmonic
>
> to mean, a sound that is decomposable into, or constructable from, a
> collection of sinusoidal overtones that are in whole number ratios.
> Thus, if the sound has frequency f, it is equivalent to the sum of
> various proportions of the sinusoidal frequencies f, 2f, 3f, 4f, etc;
>
> Anharmonic
>
> to mean, a sound not so decomposable or constructable.
>
> > B# on the staff goe to C ... E# on the staff goes to F ... (I thought)
> > this was an example of EN-harmonic(s).
>
> This is a completely different thing.
>
> > Tony mentioned AN-harmonics relative to FREQUENCY of sin waves (and
> > sound produced by the waves, I take it).
>
> No; but as explained above, however.
>
> > Help - please, somebody throw me a (harmonic) life preserver before I
> > drown! Can somebody recommend a good text to read on Tony's subject of
> > harmonics, overtones, sine waves, etc. Thanks. mw
>
> Arthur Benade, Fundamentals of Musical Acoustics, Dover.
>
> Not an easy read, though.
>
> Tony
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