[Noisebridge-discuss] why a sine wave?

[Walter Funk]

It is also good to mention that there are no pure sine wave in nature, as far as I know. Even something like a flute has harmonics of low intensity.

Don't think the concept of having sine waves isolated was even in our consciousness until Helmholtz did his experiments with resonators.

And some people definitely prefer sounds with harmonics, that why we have fuzz pedals to distort things. 

Sine-ing off,
Walter

--- On Wed, 1/13/10, dpc <weasel at meer.net> wrote:

> From: dpc <weasel at meer.net>
> Subject: Re: [Noisebridge-discuss] why a sine wave?
> To: michael at michaelshiloh.com
> Cc: "noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net" <noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net>
> Date: Wednesday, January 13, 2010, 3:10 PM
> Michael Shiloh <michaelshiloh1010 at gmail.com>
> writes:
> 
> > Why do we prefer a single tone to one that contains
> harmonics? What is
> > it about a pure tone that sounds better to us?
> 
> i'm not sure that this is a 'true' statement. 
> 
> i find a pure tone to be a little weird compared w/ one
> played on an
> actual instrument. eg, 440hz vs 'a' on a piano because of
> the
> sympathetic harmonics.
> 
> \p
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