[sdiy] Phase shifts and instantaneous frequency

[Mattias Rickardsson]

2008/7/15 Ian Fritz <ijfritz at comcast.net>:
> As Konig put it:
> "The composition of a number of harmonic tones, including both
> the evenly and unevenly numbered partials, generates in all cases, quite
> independently of the relative intensity of these, the strongest and acutest
> quality tone for the 1/4 difference of phase, and the weakest and softest
> for 3/4 difference of phase, while the difference 0 and 1/2 lie betwee the
> others, borth as regards intensity and acuteness."

I figure this might be interesting when it comes to
oscillator waveforms, filter topologies and phase shifters.
Has anybody drawn any clever conclusions yet? :-)


/mr