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Piano tuning - the essential idea Brian Capleton PhD
Updated 27th May 2007 © copyright Brian Capleton 2006, 2007
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The ingredients in a sound therefore affect both pitch and tone, simultaneously.
When you play two musical notes together, you create a musical interval. The sound of a musical interval also has its own recipe. The recipe provides the input for the ear to hear "two notes played together", and it also provides the input that the ear and brain interprets as tone.
You might think that the recipe for the musical interval is just the recipes for each of its two notes, added together. In fact, in piano intervals, this is not always the case. The reason is that the sound you hear from a piano comes mostly from the soundboard. When both notes are played together, the soundboard can vibrate in new ways, that it cannot do for either of the two notes individually.
A musical interval has its own recipe and its tone. Its tone is not always simply the same as the tones of the two individual notes, added together.
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