[HN Gopher] Tuning Timbre Spectrum Scale
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       Tuning Timbre Spectrum Scale
        
       Author : Tomte
       Score  : 28 points
       Date   : 2025-05-05 16:29 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
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       | scoopdewoop wrote:
       | This is an interesting premise.
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       | The timbre of instruments largely due to the harmonics that they
       | exhibit, and for natural instruments these tend to be simple
       | whole number ratios that we replicate in our scales in just
       | temperament, and approximate more flexibly in equal temperament.
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       | I had never considered what scales a synthetic sound with
       | unfamiliar harmonics would sound best in.
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       | Edit: Not even synthetic instruments, but Gamelan instruments
       | too! Oh so cool, I've seen many Gamelan performances and its very
       | exciting as a musician to hear such a rich and different
       | paradigm.
        
         | foo_barrio wrote:
         | Bells and metal tubes all can have funky harmonics too (and sub
         | harmonics which is interesting). I don't know if it qualifies
         | as "timbre" but if you remove the initial attack, many
         | instruments sound very similar. There are some tests on youtube
         | that I did a lot worse than I thought I would.
        
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