Subject: Re: harmonic extraction From: "reinifrosch@xxxxxxxx" <reinifrosch@xxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 10:47:18 +0000 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>David, Why is the sound of complex tones with only odd harmonics hollow and disagreeable? A possible explanation, involving the pattern of partial-tone peaks on the basilar membrane in the cochlea, is given in Section 5 ("A Modified Consonance Theory") of my article "Psycho-Acoustic Experiments on the Sensory Consonance of Musical Two-Tones", in the journal Canadian Acoustics, Vol. 35, Nr. 3, pp. 38-45 (2007). Reinhart. ----Ursprüngliche Nachricht------------------------ Von: smithd@xxxxxxxx Datum: 27.03.2009 18:26 An: <AUDITORY@xxxxxxxx> Betreff: Re: harmonic extraction Jim, [...] Perhaps this is why signals with odd harmonics have that hollow dissonant quality? Dave ----------------------------------------------------------- Reinhart Frosch, Dr. phil. nat., r. PSI and ETH Zurich, Sommerhaldenstr. 5B, CH-5200 Brugg. Phone: 0041 56 441 77 72. Mobile: 0041 79 754 30 32. E-mail: reinifrosch@xxxxxxxx .