"Sander" wrote:

"Mark Plancke" wrote in message
.. .

if so, at
what frequency would the "desired" tonality of the instrument be
compromised?

Ah, whenever the high pass filter starts to make things sound bad.

Or a slightly different approach:
wherever the high pass filter stops to make things sound better.

Sander

Yeah, that's the ticket!

Mark
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