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Sound Quality of a Musical Note A440 A432

Published 16 June 2024 by M

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Sound Quality of a Musical Note

Timbre vs Tone — One guy on internet demystifies “guitar amp tone”, showing it almost wholly concerns EQ settings and internal circuitry

Updated 19 June 2024 | Published 2 December 2023 by M

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Timbre vs Tone

62 Heads – Aquarian, Evans, Remo — same snare, same tensioning, same hoops and hardware, same microphone, same player, kit, sticks and riff, amazing variety of tone

Updated 29 June 2024 | Published 3 June 2023 by M

62 Heads

62 Heads

Auditory streaming and the building of Timbre – Steven Pinker

Updated 8 July 2024 | Published 2 April 2021 by M

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Auditory streaming and the building of Timbre

How to set your intonation correctly and always play in tune

Updated 8 July 2024 | Published 2 April 2021 by M

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How to set your intonation correctly and always play in tune

Tonewood and resonant frequency myths debunked

Updated 8 July 2024 | Published 2 April 2021 by M

Tonewood and resonant frequency myths debunked

How Eighteenth Century Piano Tuners Heard Major 3rds — 18th Century Aesthetics

Updated 22 July 2024 | Published 2 April 2021 by M

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How Eighteenth Century Piano Tuners Heard Major 3rds

Nonlinearity in Musical Instruments

Updated 10 July 2024 | Published 25 March 2021 by M

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Nonlinearity in Musical Instruments

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