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It’s not just sound, it’s literally entitled overtone singing. FYI for anybody. Your A440 is not the only frequency. There’s every integer multiple (880, 1320,
by srcreigh 3y ago
It’s not just sound, it’s literally entitled overtone singing.
FYI for anybody. Your A440 is not the only frequency. There’s every integer multiple (880, 1320, etc) as well. Different coefficients of those overtones are why you can sing “ahhh” and “eeee” at the same note but they sound different.
Polyphonic overtone singing is a technique where one or more overtones are heavily emphasized in the timbre.
This is also why major 3rds on pianos are noisy. A4 has a C# as it’s 5th harmonic at 2200Hz (5*440). But C#5 (A4s major 3rd) on piano has a 4th harmonic (two octaves up) slightly higher at 2217.48.
That’s why if you listen close there will be a ~17Hz oscillation around C#7 when you play A4 and C#5.