Klarinet Archive - Posting 000237.txt from 2001/02

From: "Dee D. Hays" <deehays@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Organs and combination tones
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 22:15:11 -0500

----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Bush" <rbushidioglot@-----.com>
Subject: Re: [kl] Organs and combination tones

> Sorry William for this short note. I just don't have more time at this
time.
>
> Difference tones do exist and are audible products of two different
sounding
> pitches sounded at the same time. We could go on an argue about whether
the
> falling tree in the forest makes a sound if no one is there to hear it,
but
> I, like you have never solved that problem.
>
> Difference tones are NOT a mental phenomenon.
>

I feel like a little philosophy tonight. When that tree falls in the
forest, it generates a wave front in the air. That wave can be measured by
a pressure sensitive device. That wave exists whether anyone is there or
not. However, that is not sound. Sound occurs in the brain when our
special pressure sensitive device called the ear translates that pressure
energy into something the brain can process and assign meaning to.

One might even compare it to radio. The radio waves, generated either
naturally or artificially, exist whether or not we have a device to sense
them. Just because you turn off your radio doesn't mean the local radio
station stops transmitting it merely means that you have no way of sensing
whether or not they are indeed still transmitting.

Dee Hays

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