[hank alrich]

Scott Dorsey wrote:

Scott Fraser wrote:
Well, in the case of a pipe, it has multiple resonant modes, remember.
--scott

And in this case the pipe is behaving like a vibraphone bar, not like
an organ pipe, so the overtone series contains many irrational
partials.

And that, in short, is why all instruments don't sound the same when they
are playing the same note.

They're not actually playing the same note; only the pitch remains.

--
ha
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