Chime_note_on_C.mid


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English: Chime note on C. In chimes, modes 4, 5, and 6 appear to determine the strike tone and have frequencies in the ratios 9 2 :11 2 :13 2 , or 81:121:169, "which are close enough to the ratios 2:3:4 for the ear to consider them nearly harmonic and to use them as a basis for establishing a virtual pitch." [1]
Date 15 January 2012 (original upload date)
Source Created by Hyacinth ( talk ) 06:18, 15 January 2012 (UTC) using Sibelius 5.
Author The original uploader was Hyacinth at English Wikipedia .
  1. Rossing, Thomas D. (2000). Science of Percussion Instruments , p.68. ISBN 9789810241582 .

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  • 2012-01-15 06:18 Hyacinth 0×0× (125 bytes) Chime note on C. In chimes, modes 4, 5, and 6 appear to determine the strike tone and have frequencies in the ratios 92:112:132, or 81:121:169, "which are close enough to the ratios 2:3:4 for the ear to consider them nearly harmonic and to use them as a b

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