Klarinet Archive - Posting 000746.txt from 2002/11

From: Bi6W@-----.net (Bill Wright)
Subj: Re: [kl] Centred tone
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 23:59:34 -0500

<><> John=A0Dablin wrote:
Would anyone like to put their head above the parapet and risk a
definition?

(Do you hear that scraping sound? That's my fingernails dragging
across stone as I slide off the parapet and into the moat below ---
whose rippling scummy water seems filled with dark and nebulous
creatures that nobody has ever described precisely, but which the mages
swear *do* exist.)

The image of "centered' suggests an impression (not necessarily
mathematically accurate) that a graph of harmonic overtones:

(1) would *not* be spread in nearly equal amplitude over as many
overtones,

(2) wold have generally narrower peaks and troughs,

(3) would have reduced 'fuzz' in the even-numbered troughs

than the graph of a "fuzzy" or "dirty" tone.

<A-A-Y-y-e-e-e-e!> <splash> <snap moan! munch sluuurrp>

Regards,
Bill <he was a nice guy, but....>

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