source file: mills2.txt Date: Sun, 5 Jan 1997 13:24:05 -0800 Subject: Harmonic But Nonharmonic-Sounding From: Gary Morrison <71670.2576@compuserve.com> One other curious thing to try is building a tone from absolutely perfect harmonic pitch relationships, but use only prime-numbered harmonics. I have built a few such timbres, and they have a surprisingly bell-like sensation, despite the fact that the partials' strictly-harmonic pitch relationship is distinctly non-bell-line. Perhaps Marion M. would attribute that this to its large LCM? (That in the sense that nonharmonic relationships often have large LCMs as well.) Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Sun, 5 Jan 1997 22:24 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA02056; Sun, 5 Jan 1997 22:27:44 +0100 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA02054 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id NAA26266; Sun, 5 Jan 1997 13:27:41 -0800 Date: Sun, 5 Jan 1997 13:27:41 -0800 Message-Id: <199701051626_MC1-E34-DC76@compuserve.com> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu