[sdiy] Request brain dump on balanced lines -- harmonic numbering

[Glen]

At 06:18 AM 10/14/02 , Peter Grenader wrote:
>on 10/14/02 4:27 AM, Dave Krooshof at synthos at xs4all.nl wrote:
>
>> Huh?
>> I, for one, hear frequency as a linear thing (bogus remark).
>> Seriously, if you look at frequency as a linear scale, the above is true.
>> The frequencies, in Hertz, of a 100Hz tone are:
>> 100, 200, 300, 400, 500 Hz etc.
>
>Guys and gal,
>
>Guys -
>
>Get out a frequency counter and run these frequencies together - the result
>will be quite dissonant and, outside of the first and second octaves, not
>part of the natural harmonic order of an overtone series.

If you download this short (1/2 second) WAV file:

http://users.ezwv.com/~mclilith/12345.wav

You can hear a sample of 100, 200, 300, 400, and 500 Hz mixed together in
equal amounts. It doesn't sound dissonant to me.

later,
Glen Berry