VPMA93H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Tuvan Throat Singing, Overtone Singing, String Vibration
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Timbre is also known as tone color. Sound is produced by vibrations that occur when an object is set in motion. For the human ear we can hear a range of 20-20,000 vibrations per seconds. In terms of musical sounds -> 20-5,000 sounds per seconds. They travel through a medium -> air or water. On our end it reaches our eardrums which translate those sound waves into electric impulses that are then read by our brain. Guitar example: string is where the sound comes from but there is an 8 figure shaped wood that echoes the sound and amplifies it. Frequency in acoustics, the number of complete vibrations or cycles per second in a vibrating system, such as a string or a column of air; frequency is the primary determinant of the listener"s perception of pitch. Our ears respond differently to high and low frequencies. High frequency -> many cycles per second and low frequency -> few cycles per second.
